"Rules" for wearing family tartan

[Micric]

I'm thinking,...being awarded the various title in this thread;-

Deutschland uber alles!!!"

may be more fitting!!

[Andrew M. Stewart]

The "real Highlanders" wore whatever tartan they liked, or tartan that was made from the readily available dye's in their area. It was the aristocratic lowlanders in the late 1800's that made up the idea of "clan tartan's". Recollections of the 45 describe highlanders wearing many different tartans on their hats, shoulder plaids, trews, philibegs, philimore's etc. you can wear whatever you like, these private tartans have very little to do with real highland culture. As I've said before; if these aristocratic lowlanders had a real highlander walk into one of their fancy "highland" balls they'd have called the cops!

[Andrew M. Stewart]

As a piper, I'd rather Kumbaya, as it fits on the pipe better than Auld Lang Syne.

Git bloody real!

[Micric]

Andrew,

To your posts;




and;

[Andrew M. Stewart]

Just as the clan tartan is an indication of a clansman's status as a member of the clan.

Lord Lyon can no more adjudicate the wearing of eagle feathers than he can the wearing of clan tartan. Both are a right and entitlement, by tradition, which is not legally enforcable, even in Lyon Court.

The Gordon Highlanders P&D all wear eagles feathers, any idea what that's all about?

[Bugbear]

Does anyone else, in reading several of these discussions, get the feeling, and I mean emotional gut feeling, that you do not have the right and entitlement to wear Highland attire?

Perhaps even, and I am again talking about an emotional gut reaction, that Highland attire aught to be exclusive to the Scots in the Highlands?

Just an odd feeling I keep noticing as I read through the forum.

[Micric]

Ted,

We're not meant to have emotional guts.(:-)
Some would Like us to feel that we have no right to wear the tartan.
but just go back and read Andrew S's post at top of this page. I can't fault it.

If only True Highlanders wore the tartan, all the mills would close, the highland games would die, and our own "the Scotsman" and three others would be put in a glass case as
"Endangered species" (:-)
Now, Which way do we want it?

Wear it with respect, and Wear it Well!

[muirkirkca]

It is important to appreciate the role the tartan weavers, kilt makers and manufacturers and merchants of Scottish paraphernalia have in maintaining and keeping the culture. Without them the discussion about "rules" would be completely academic. Without some modernity creeping into the kilt world the whole system would stagnate. I doubt that those involved are becoming independently wealthy for their involvement and I greatly appreciate their role.

[BoldHighlander]

If only True Highlanders wore the tartan, all the mills would close, the highland games would die, and our own "the Scotsman" and three others would be put in a glass case as
"Endangered species" (:-)
Now, Which way do we want it?

Wear it with respect, and Wear it Well!

Hear! Hear!
Very well said sir.

[Bugbear]

Ted,

We're not meant to have emotional guts.(:-)
Some would Like us to feel that we have no right to wear the tartan.
but just go back and read Andrew S's post at top of this page. I can't fault it.

If only True Highlanders wore the tartan, all the mills would close, the highland games would die, and our own "the Scotsman" and three others would be put in a glass case as
"Endangered species" (:-)
Now, Which way do we want it?

Wear it with respect, and Wear it Well!

Don't know, sometimes that gut feeling is trying to tell you something important. "Reading between the lines," and picking up on what people are really conveying without saying what they are feeling, comes from the gut feeling.

On the other hand, you might be conveying to other people, in ways you are not even aware of, your own unspoken feelings, which they pick up with their own gut feelings.

"the Scotsman," would not fit in a glass case with the other three folks you may be thinking of.

Anyway, just thought I would throw it out there since it's been bothering me, and since this thread took a whole different turn.