let's see some white-based tartans that weren't designed for 6 year old girls to dance the Highland Fling, or for hostess dresses, bridal gowns, or miniskirts.
It's funny that this misconception exists. When I went looking for information I plugged 'dress tartan' into google and was looking at the images and I noticed that 80% of the women pictured wearing tartan dresses, were NOT wearing dress tartans. I thought this odd and then went directly to a few highland outfitter websites, and I found the same result!

leads to the misconception that I'm guessing a few of us shared up until about three pages ago
Yay!! Open and inquiring minds are so much better than the opposite.

You know, if I could afford it, I would dearly, dearly love to have a new kilt from the muted Culloden that swallowed up one of our members. I wonder if that tartan has spit him out yet?