Wearing kilts of other tartans than your clans.

[gilmore]

Although I haven't attempted to catalog all of the clan tartans collected by the Highland Society of London, the overall impression I've gathered is that most of the clan chiefs resorted to selecting tartans designed by Wilson's of Bannockburn. Some clan tartans were taken from artifacts believed to have come from the '45. According to the late James D. Scarlett, the Campbell tartan dates to 1749. The Black Watch used some other tartan(s) before then. It did not come to be regarded as as a Campbell clan tartan until much later. The Red Morrison tartan dates to 1747 at the latest, but it was not reproduced by industrial weavers until after its discovery in 1935, over a hundred years after the first batch of clan tartans appeared. There is no reason to believe it was regarded as a clan tartan before then.

Regarding the topic of this thread, I do aim to respect custom and tradition, even when its origin can reasonably be placed within two centuries of the present day. However, in my opinion, that kind of leaves me without a tartan.

What about the famous MacSourgrapes tartan?