How did I...? I didn't. My parents gifted me with one when I was three (or so I am told). That would have been in my Clan tartan, of course. At school I wore the school tartan, but somewhere around seven or eight I was again fitted with one in my Clan tartan. That one passed to a friend's son, my nephew, the friend's son's son, and hangs back in my armoire waiting for another generation . Now, because I wear a kilt so often, I have more than one. Several are in variations of my own Clan tartan, one was a superb gift from the late Mackintosh and woven by the renowned Jamie Scarlett, and a few I have simply because I either liked them (the Lochaber is one of those, and the Maple Leaf another) or needed them for gardening, working in my woodshop, or simply wearing (I've a couple of Freedom pv kilts I really like for that). I suggest you go for the Black Watch, but if you choose it read up hugely on the Regiment and it's history so you can fend off (or bore to tears) those who ask you the inevitable questions: why the kilt and why the tartan?