Quote Originally Posted by Alan H
Hamish, in terms of wearing tartans, and this is just me....clearly many of us have different ideas... I'd not wear kilt made of a clan tartan that I was unaffiliated with. Now, that's just me, eh? However, that leaves me with oodles of wonderful tartans still to choose from. Here's just a list...

The List

My thinking isn't that I should be limited to tartans, but that "some sort of plaid", possibly a tartan of some type, along with other "Scots" accessories make the general public a bit more comfortable with kilts in general. This might be handy for those of us with doubtful spouses to work with.

PS: If I was really enamoured of a particular clan tartan and really wanted to wear it, I'd just write a letter to the clan chief and ask him for permission....which no doubt he'd be quite pleased to grant. But I'd ASK, first. But that's just me.
Alan, I appreciate and admire your principles, and that is certainly an impressive list you gave us. Although of Scottish descent, I have only my Clan to provide me with a link to a 'legitimate' tartan!! Fortunately, I am just as happy to wear a plain colour kilt as I am a tartan one - and I am not aware that, here in the UK, it is any 'easier' to wear a tartan kilt, and get away with it, than a plain one.