Solid-colour kilt, Tweed kilt, or Universal tartan?

[sydnie7]

District and "avocation" tartans (firefighter, the tartans associated with various military branches, etc.) can be an excellent choice. It gives the wearer more of a connection to the tartan. For example, Bob really likes his Leatherneck kilt.

There are also tartans associated with non-Celtic family background -- I think the German Heritage has been mentioned -- I have a length of the elusive Dutch Friendship waiting to go under the needle one of these days. . .

[Grizzly]

Nice kilt, Brooke.

A warm (belated) welcome to the PHKOC.

I'll second that, very nice Brooke.

[ProudGrandsonofClanGrant]

Thanks for the opinions guys, I'll pass this thread on to my friend. It seems that tartan is the preferred choice. I had suggested solids and patterned tweed because I have been interested in them lately. I think that they are a great way to be traditional, and the option to go with anything other than tartan often gets overlooked. Tartan certainly identifies the garment as a kilt, but a nice patterned tweed or solid can be quite attractive as well. MacMillans son demonstrates that with his Harris Tweed kilt (very sharp.) Thank you for the photo.

Cheers,

Nick

[MacLowlife]

PGoCG,
If you are really lucky, you can sometimes find Harris Tweed goods in Black Watch of Royal Stewart. I believe they also weave a variant of MacLeod of Lewis as well. I have never seen them made up into a kilt, but I expect they would be beautiful.

[Tasty Rabbit]

I too choose universal tartans . There-s sooooooooooo many great
looking universal tartans to choose from ... & a few ugly ones

[MacMillans son]

Brooke, who is that strange person next to you wearing, of all things, p@nts. I would not have thought you associated with that type.

I'm not sure who he is Phil. I thought that his blue shirt and pants helped to bring out the blue flecks in the tweed, so I asked him to stand next to me for the photo. Apparently, his name is Hoby

[tulloch]

Cameron of Erracht is a personal favorite.

[ProudGrandsonofClanGrant]

Tulloch,

I have always admired Cameron of Erracht myself.

Cheers