Quote Originally Posted by Geoff Withnell View Post
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I am giving serious thought to buying a Gordon tartan kilt. I am Jewish, and many Scottish Jews are named Gordon, and many who are not have worn the Gordon tartan (usually the Dress tartan). This seems like a close enough association to me, but i would not want to be upbraided for wearing a tartan I "don't have the right to".

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There is more to it than many Scottish Jews' being named Gordon that established Gordon as the tartan associated with Jews. This has been discussed rather thoroughly in two somewhat lengthy threads of a year ago or more. I am sure if you searched you could find them both. It's a custom that has arisen organically over several decades, if not a century or more.

I am not what most would call a Jew, or probably even Jewish, but have Jewish ancestry and have been thinking of wearing a Gordon tartan also.