Clan tartan ties, unforgivable sin?

[Dollander]

I'm grateful for all the advice I have received here, so here it goes. Why would you wear a tartan tie with your kilt! Is 8 yards of tartan not enough for one outfit!!!???!!!

But seriously, I wear a neck tie to compliment and set off an outfit. When you are wearing a navy blue suit do you wear a tie in exactly the same colour, with no stripe or pattern? If you have grey harris tweed jacket and slacks on, do you wear a tie that exactly matches the tweed? No? Well for the same reason, you wear a tie that sets off the outfit. Now to be honest, when I wear my navy suit, I wear my Lamont tartan tie, because it sets it off.

..and I hate to say it, but the picture of Sir Sean is ... just wrong!

When your jacket and trousers match, then of course you want your tie to be a different color. Likewise you wouldn’t want to wear a tartan tie with a full tartan suit. But when it’s a kilt with a black/tweed/etc. jacket…I just really don’t get this mentality that tartan accessories will somehow render one’s kilt invisible.

I posted that picture of Sean Connery to show someone who is widely known for being fiercely proud of not only his heritage, but his very identity as a Scotsman, wearing what so many diaspora "Scots” insist is an atrocity. Are you gonna tell him of all people that he’s wearing his country’s national dress incorrectly? I wasn’t even paying attention to the pairing of the long tie with a PC waistcoat. But since it was brought up, is there any real aesthetic reason why it’s such an abomination? And sorry, but I’m too antiauthoritarian (socially speaking) to accept “It’s just not done.” as an answer. Uniforms are for the military…