Ethics and courtesies of branching into other tartans?

[imbrius]

I looked into getting the Freemason Tartan back upon my raising, but I just don't care for the color scheme. I think I'll just stick to my ring - unlike some Brothers I know who go with an S&C kilt pin, belt, belt buckle, sgian dubh, tie. I'm almost certain they'd fix their aprons to their aprons if they could figure out how to do it.

Most of the kilted brothers around here not in a pipe band wear either a family / district tartan, the Wisconsin state tartan, or the Freemason universal. Pipers around here seem to have all standardized on Royal Stewart so they end up looking like a rather noisy pile of Walker's shortbread biscuits.

FTR, the only Masonic kilt kit I have is a silver sporran chain that I really only wear to black tie events with the evening dress sporran.