At the risk of being beaten senseless with a pound of wet spaghetti I'd like to mention that there is a pre-Culloden Scots tradition of combining different tartans in a single outfit. I have read that there exists a painting of the battle, allegedly based on the attire of actual prisoners, showing Scots wearing as many as three different tartans simultaneously. This is of course a practice that one would expect the English to deride, but what care we of their attitudes?

My favorite type of shirt for cold weather is a heavy flannel jacket-shirt, which is often available only in plaid. One can often find these in inconspicuous patterns such as the one I'm wearing now: dark green and Navy blue. IMHO there are many popular conventional tartans with which this one does not clash. I see only two disadvantages to these shirts:
1. If the shirt is worn outside the kilt it will cover much of the kilt; and
2. The shirt is so thick that a kilt which fits under it will not fit well over it, in general.

Responses? Opinions? Questions?


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