What about black and red diced hose with not MacGregor?

[AKScott]

I shall now have some crow for breakfast.

First, I have updated my location to reflect "Sophomorehood." I am clearly no longer a n00b, but demonstrably still an underclassman. My location will continue to read "sophomorehood" until 01-01-2013 or Steve Ashton removes it, whichever comes first.

MacMurdo, JFSMACLJR please accept my humble and public apologies for having painted with too broad a brush.

In general I find North Americans (mylself included) know some but not all of the rules and customs of highland wear.

It is this incomplete knowledge that leads some people who are not ignorant and are not apathetic to sometimes break rules they didn't know existed. Sometimes their out of bounds fashion choices look OK, and sometimes they don't.

You are both in a small cadre of North Americans who post here regularly and look good doing it. No disrespect intended.

JFSMACLJR you are on here giving good advice almost every day. I have never known you to be wrong. Having grown up in (border state) Kentucky myself, I was shocked to find, when I moved to New York at age 20, that nearly every town and village I visited had a street named Union Street. At about age 30 I moved to North Carolina. I will forgo my further stories about the late unpleasantness of 1861 to 1865. I am perhaps overly sensitive to such things.

Honestly McMurdo your pic in red and black diced hose posted elsewhere was the one that got me to photchop red and black diced onto my "MacOnion" sett kilt. It looks good. But your kilt isn't "MacOnion", yours is "MacMustard".

I didn't doubt either one of you, but I wanted to know why. My apologies.

[JSFMACLJR]

I shall now have some crow for breakfast.

First, I have updated my location to reflect "Sophomorehood." I am clearly no longer a n00b, but demonstrably still an underclassman. My location will continue to read "sophomorehood" until 01-01-2013 or Steve Ashton removes it, whichever comes first.

MacMurdo, JFSMACLJR please accept my humble and public apologies for having painted with too broad a brush.

In general I find North Americans (mylself included) know some but not all of the rules and customs of highland wear.

It is this incomplete knowledge that leads some people who are not ignorant and are not apathetic to sometimes break rules they didn't know existed. Sometimes their out of bounds fashion choices look OK, and sometimes they don't.

You are both in a small cadre of North Americans who post here regularly and look good doing it. No disrespect intended.

JFSMACLJR you are on here giving good advice almost every day. I have never known you to be wrong. Having grown up in (border state) Kentucky myself, I was shocked to find, when I moved to New York at age 20, that nearly every town and village I visited had a street named Union Street. At about age 30 I moved to North Carolina. I will forgo my further stories about the late unpleasantness of 1861 to 1865. I am perhaps overly sensitive to such things.

Honestly McMurdo your pic in red and black diced hose posted elsewhere was the one that got me to photchop red and black diced onto my "MacOnion" sett kilt. It looks good. But your kilt isn't "MacOnion", yours is "MacMustard".

I didn't doubt either one of you, but I wanted to know why. My apologies.

No need for apologies!

[Ryan Ross]

In general I find North Americans (mylself included) know some but not all of the rules and customs of highland wear.

On closer inspection, I just bet you'd find the same was true of most Scots, also... dare I suggest, even many Highland Scots.

[Jock Scot]

On closer inspection, I just bet you'd find the same was true of most Scots, also... dare I suggest, even many Highland Scots.

If you are talking about the kilt, I have no doubt at all that you are quite correct. Particularly as many Scots do not ever wear the kilt. Although I suspect that many will subconsciously have picked up the basics nonetheless.

If you are talking about other countries attire, conventions, traditions etc., then the Scots are as much in the dark as any other nation.

[Nick the DSM]

MacOnion...MacMustard...

MacRib????

[Ryan Ross]

If you are talking about the kilt, I have no doubt at all that you are quite correct. Particularly as many Scots do not ever wear the kilt. Although I suspect that many will subconsciously have picked up the basics nonetheless.

If you are talking about other countries attire, conventions, traditions etc., then the Scots are as much in the dark as any other nation.

I was, indeed, speaking of the kilt, Jock... though as you pointed out, taken the other way, it would probably be just as true.