I am glad someone found the edge to the apron 'wrong' - it has been bothering me since seeing the photo, that the edge of the apron was on the straight and narrow.

I didn't want to be the first to mention it - me being here like five minutes and new to kilt making and making it up as I go anyway - but I inherited my attention to detail and noticing ways from more than one ancestor.

It is one of the 'it makes it a kilt' features, really.

It might not be in the dictionaries, but the term a plaid pattern or plaid fabric is in common usage - out of respect for the 'true' tartans and not wanting checks to get above themselves there was a need for a tartanish patterned fabric.

It might have a pedigree in that when tartans were being formalised there might have been many plaids (the noun) which were still around, in plaid (the adjective) patterns which had been declared not standard and so they were reduced to being pieces of non tartan fabric.