Tartan at the Highland Games

[biblemonkey]

Biblemonkey,

As with most decisions, it seems you have competing values to decide about. As I see it, it is a matter of mentally more comfortable and slightly less physically comfortable, or slightly more physically comfortable and less mentally comfortable. I say slightly because unless the lower weight kilt is also much less yardage I don't believe their performance in the heat is going to be much different.

Given those two options I will always choose mental comfort. I would much rather spend the day walking around with my head held high while being a touch warm, than walking around slightly more comfortable with a sheepish feeling, worrying about having to explain to whomever why I am wearing a kilt that is not of my clan.

And a future projection of Jock's hindsight, perhaps you could start saving for a clan tartan kilt in a lighter material, if that would solve both issues for you, for next year.

I hope that helps.

Well, it's not a matter of "mental" comfort. I just wondered if it would be in bad taste. I would NEVER wear another clan at a clan function. It's just that sometimes clan organizations are being represented at the Highland games and I wondered would it be in bad taste to wear another clan in that type of environment or if the ol "wear what you please" rule would allow it?

In the future I do hope to get a lighter Graham in the "weathered" tartan but not yet as I have too many kilts already! According to my wife that is.