This is an amazing thread, I was never tempted to post before reading throught as I frequently am; each post made me want to read more. All of my current kilts are either universal tartans or solids, I have a piece of fabric in the queue that has clan affiliation, but my connection to it is literary and professional, I've said it elsewhere: I am not Scottish.

I wear a kilt because I want to. Scooby and I wear solid kilts because we have the technology, time and access to materials to make them. When I first started wearing a kilt, I thought my highest wish was for a nice Black Watch, I have since found many other things to want(isn't that nice). Some of those things I'll never have, some I may.

As some of you say, there's something about a tartan kilt that sets it apart from an otherwise identical solid color garment. I identify myself as a Californian, but have no particular interest in the California Tartan, my thoughts on Black Watch have changed; I still want some of my kilts in tartan and I'm still thinking about what tartans I feel connected to.

Bob