Non-Scottish tartan question

[Alaskan]

So you have $1700 for the first kilt. But if you bought enough fabric for two kilts, that would make an addtional 5 yards on top of the previous 11 necessary. 5 yards at $100 makes the total price for two kilts $2200, or $1100 each. Keep going that way and it gets cheaper the more kilts you make. Until the kilts are about $800 a piece. A recognized tartan costs about $500 for an 8 yard kilt. So you are paying an extra $300 for your own registered tartan. Not too bad. I could think of worse ways to spend $300. Granted, you would need to find a lot of people to buy kilts...

[ggibby]

How many yards of raw fabric are needed for a proper dress kilt, anyway?

...and the tangent whisks us away once more...

-G

[Chris]

Every tartan has to start somewhere. You should definitely do it if you have the coin. It's going to cost a few bucks though.

I've always wanted to do it, but my wife won't let me. I figure that when my son gets married that will be a good excuse. He's only 2 now, so I have a lot of time to save the cash!

[phil h]

I looked into it too from TFCK, will cost over $1000 US.
maybe look into a district tartan, I have a black watch, most people think it's ok for anyone to wear.
also royal suart is considered ok for most people to wear.TFCK made a tartan "thisle dubh" (this'll do) it's made for anyone to wear, made for their hire business.I am lucky enough to live in Ontario Canada.
there's an Ontario tartan,a maple leaf tartan, I just ordered a nova scotia tartan kilt from bearkilts.com
I have never been to nova scotia, but who cares? it's a nice tartan,I have a fiew friends from NS and I think they will be quite pleased to see me in a NS kilt.there are no laws that say you can't wear any tartan you like, most people who claim to be of scotish decent would have a hard time to prove thay have the right to wear said family tartan.( not that they need one) eg, my friend is a macdonald, now witch macdonald tartan would he wear? thare are dozens, many times mr macdonald Snr would belong to a different clan than his son, wasn't a family thing, was a loyalty/association thing, like a gang or a club is today, but a bit more serious.
you don't have to be german to wear denim now do you?
my friend got married in a kilt, he was born in Scotland, but didn't wear his family tartan, they don't have one. their family goes back to ireland you see, his dad also wore a kilt, he wasn't sure what the tartan was, he just liked it. most people just wear what the hire shop has in store if they don't have a kilt, it's ok. please don't feel like you have to justify wearing a kilt, I was born in England, but have worn a kilt to may an occasion here with my scotish friends, they are all quite pleased that I like to wear a kilt, you should have seen all the women make a big fuss over me in my TFCK blackwatch at my friends dads' 70th birthay party in the celtic club, an English man wearing a kilt in the celtic club, lucky I wasn't hanged
but it was a great time had by all.
gee, am I ranting again?

[richardljohnson]

Have you checked to see if anyone in you family might have been a sept of a Scotish Clan? The link below is a good one for searching. The site also has search facilities for tartan names or you can 'cruise' the listing to see if there is one you like.

http://www.tartans.scotland.net/sept_search.cfm

Creating you own can be fun BUT to put it into kilf form can be costly, as some of the other post have said.

RLJ-

[phil h]

Have you checked to see if anyone in you family might have been a sept of a Scotish Clan? The link below is a good one for searching. The site also has search facilities for tartan names or you can 'cruise' the listing to see if there is one you like.

http://www.tartans.scotland.net/sept_search.cfm

Creating you own can be fun BUT to put it into kilf form can be costly, as some of the other post have said.

RLJ-

or try this
http://www.scotchcorner.com/mill-tex...ame-index.html

[philbo]

Thanks for your advice everyone. I don't think I'm going to dish out the cash to have an official registered tartan in my name yet. I've already told a few inquisitive locals that I'm wearing the Selbo tartan, and people simply nodded and said, "Ah."

I checked out a couple of those links, but I'm afraid my genealogy has no ties to Scotland (there's a dash of English in there somewhere, but that's as close as my ancestry gets).

I'd like to show you which tartan I've selected, but I'm not fully computer literate, so I have no idea how to post pictures yet. I'm not really too concerned whether I have my family name officially recognized by the Scottish tartan registry. I just think it would be cool for my future lineage to have a specific tartan that they could be proud to wear.

[philbo]

Hey y'all, I finally got some pictures uploaded so if anyone wanted to see what I chose for my family tartan, you can check out my album now. There's also a picture of my kilted kids in there too. Thanks again everyone for your assistance in this matter.

[Graham]

I like the tartan, very nice. Great to see your lads in a kilt too.
No offense, but why do you wear the kilt so long? Our robbie may have something to say about that

[Rufus]

Great pics Philbo.

That first pic - with your youngest son....classic Bozeman (if the kilt were Carhart jeans.)