Your opinions, please.

[DireStraitsFan]

I am a service member, so I like that idea. I also like the county connection. I just need to figure out which county we're connected to! Thanks.

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Wow! I like the bluebonnet tartan also! I bet those special tartans would cost a bundle to have woven into a kilt, though.

[fluter]

Wow! I like the bluebonnet tartan also! I bet those special tartans would cost a bundle to have woven into a kilt, though.

If it's a custom weave, it may run up the price: consult your kilt-maker. For a wool kilt in the (waves hands a bit) $350-400 range, our members

Matt Newsome Scottish Tartans Museum,albanach.org specializes in the 4 yard box-pleat, and can do a 4-5 yard knife pleat.
Rocky Roeger USA Kilts does a 5-yard knife pleat.

If you have to wait a bit for a wool custom-made kilt, then some of the other options mentioned are good.

Rocky's American Heritage tartan is strikingly attractive, and now available in PV. He offers several "universal" tartans associated with Scotland (Caledonia, Scottish National, 3 Stewarts, etc), Wales (St. David's, Prince of Wales).

For your generic Irish connection, Stillwater's Irish National in acrylic fabric or Rocky's similar Ireland's National look good, as do a solid green or saffron.

More specifically, your genealogist may turn up Irish counties or a Scots geographic connection for a district tartan; or a clan connection. My Scots lines mostly come through my mother, so I'm a fan of exploiting any direct connection in the family tree.