Having been flamed for suggesting something similar once before, I'm a little shy about saying this, but perhaps there are slightly different standards on different sides of the various oceans, and America, whose very existence was founded on defiance of or at least variation from British norms, has a different way of looking at this issue than people on the British side of the Atlantic. And we Canadians play the role of onlookers who pick and choose different sides at different times. But I do think that what is being seen is that there are two slightly different sets of rules in play here and I do have the idea that clan tartans are a little more I-don't-know-the-word in Britain than some other places. Correct me if I'm wrong...