Quote Originally Posted by MrLion View Post
Depends on priorities with your goals or motives for kilt-wearing.
If you want to wear the kilt to honor your family heritage, and keep your expenses down, save up for and buy the tartan that best represents your heritage.
If you are looking to obtain more than one kilt because you like to wear kilts, by all means take the "deal" with the universal tartan that anyone can wear anyway!
Will this be your first kilt purchase?
Actually I already have the Universal (Scotland the Brave) tartan kilt he had that I liked. This is more to see if it would be acceptable (for daily wear) to wear the Sutherland or the Macgregor Hunting tartans he also has. I Like them both ok but don't know if I should take advantage of the deal for a second time in a tartan that may cause hurt feelings in the kilted community or just get the PV semi-trad from USAkilts in the family (Graham) tartan for $50 more. The ex-hire is handstitched 13oz in a tartan I have no "right" to but the other is a (well constructed) polyviscose kilt in (one of) my clans. I don't know how much people adhere to the clan affiliation side these days as my own Scottish grandmother, when she could not get a Hynde tartan kilt to represent her clan ties, got a Maclean kilt because it was the same basic color scheme.