Question in mind

[PiobBear]

"I am not orginally born in Scotland neither in Ireland.I am not anyhow related to any Clans nor to any scot/irishman. But does this mean that I cannot wear a kilt?"

Absolutely not; if you want to wear a kilt, wear a kilt. Besides clan, district and corporate tartans, there are several free setts which aren't associated with any of the above, and self colored kilts with no tartan at all.

"I am thinking of making one because we are basicly going to start to practice somekind of a live-roleplaying game and are planning to follow the traditional way of scottish in 14th century."

Then you won't need a kilt; they didn't appear until 200 years later. In the 14th century Scots wore a long shirt and cloak, essentially like the Irish léine and brat, usually with a belt.

"They wear no clothes except their dyed shirts and a sort of light woollen rug of several colours."
Jean de Beaugué, L'histoire de la guerre dEcosse, describing Highlanders who were present at the siege of Haddington by the French in 1549.

[jiminak]

For whatever reason you choose, you can wear a kilt and tartan as you see fit. There of course norms within the kilt wearing fraternity, however, a quick browse around here should tell you that this covers a lot of ground.

Regards what tartan you should use, again any you like. There are regional tartans not attached to any clan name you can use without any hesitation, but these days even clan tartans are perfectly acceptable. As noted earlier in the thread, be sure you know the name of your tartan; that is the second most common question you will be asked.

If I had a caveat to express, and this is only my own opinion which you may safely ignore, you might avoid personal tartans not your own. In real life this is not likely to be an issue as those tartans are not generally available retail, but I think I’d be miffed to find my personal tartan on a stranger (if I had one).

The most important thing is to GO FOR IT, and enjoy.

Jim

[Tattoo Bradley]

[Richard_D]

Sorry for my stupidity. The reason we where planning on playing 14th century was based on the technology or better to say it's unexistens at the time. The reaserch involved was fairly poor and I didnt have a clue that kilts didn't excist at that time. But I believe we are still going to wear them only if the reason is the fact that we want to show that who we are at the game.

By saying "up north" I forgot the real meaning of the phrase. English isnt my first language and it's a bit rusted. I ,myself , am living in Finland, Helsinki to be more precise.

So in another related subject. We where planning on playing certain clan orginally in Scotland clan MacDonald of Sleat. Do you believe that it will be ok? Is there any objections or should we just go and try to make up a clan of our own?