What Kilt to Wear??

[Dirk Skene]

Bottom line is that you wear what you want However you can take this example for an answer to your question. My mom was a Hall. Hall is a sept of Skene. I wear Skene by right. From her mom's side comes Williams. I wear Gunn by right. My dad's mom was a Shephard. I wear that by right. Very closely realted is Brown. I wear that by right.

I also wear Royal Stewart. Hunting Stewart, Buchannan, Black Watch, Gordon & anything esle I wish because I want to. I do not wear U.S.A. military tartans because of personal family reasons. We have a long history as a family for military service & I never served. Others that have never served DO wear them out of respect. Let no one tell you that you are forbidded to wear a perticular tartan.

[Ian.MacAllan]

Bottom line is that you wear what you want . . .

A few clan chiefs have asked that the wearing of their dress tartans be restricted to members of their immediate families. To me (and many others) that is sufficient reason to want not to wear those tartans, but this is of course a matter of courtesy, not legislation.

.Edit 21Mar2008 The phrase "not legislatation" may be incorrect. I have just discovered that the designers of the Special Forces tartan and of the Presbyterian tartan (Synod)(US) have restricted those tartans. There may well be other restricted tartans. I don't know the nature of the restrictions but more information may be available through http://store.clan.com/materialfinder...searchterm=U.S. Sorry for the error.

.