I wore my Wallace tartan kilt to a neighbors party. A gentleman who recognized the tartan as Wallace, asked if that was my mothers maiden name. I told him it wasn't and asked why he would have thought it was. He told me that the tartan that a Scot wore was determined by the mother's family name. I gave the gentleman the benefit of knowing what he was talking about since I doubt the average person wouldn't be able to recognize a Wallace tartan from a table cloth from an Italian eatery.

Anyway, is he right? Has anyone else heard this or had this guy just had one too many brews? Just curious...