as the tartans had been designed just after the hipe from queen victoria II around 1830, they are not really the patterns worn by the high time of clan system during middle age or renaissance.

i feel that there are just to many nice looking tartans that we would not give a good service to kilt wearing if we don t wore them.
this concerns especially non-scots who only would have the right to wear non clan related tartans.

the author of an interetsing book wrote that the scots are much to proud of their history and sensible with their traditions, that they would never allow the mainstream abuse of tartans if they really had been historical ;)