Tartans What Tartan can I wear? What Tartan can I wear? Tartans A — Z. Remember most of our products are made to order so check times for this. One example is musical groups and bands. La Banda is a Mexico City bagpipe band that wears a tartan kilt to perform.
This band is named after a battalion of Irish deserters from the American Army. The Bergen Pipe Band wears its own tartan kilt, designed by its founder! So if you find yourself in Norway with a hankering to wear a kilt, consider joining the Bergen Pipe Band. You could also join the Bergen Scottish Society, who also have permission to wear the Pipe Band tartan. When you are asking about whether you should do something, the natural inclination is to seek out an authority.
There is a tartan authority, as it happens. The Scottish Tartans Authority works to preserve, catalog, and develop tartans new and old. This section can help you determine what is appropriate to wear with a kilt at formal, casual, and ceremonial occasions. You have options if you are not of Scottish or Irish heritage and still want to try wearing the kilt.
You could wear a kilt in a universal or general tartan. Not every tartan has a specific tie to a family or organization. Certain tartans are open to everyone! In some places, such as Ireland, the kilt is tied more to geographic location than to your clan or family. Find out if your city or region has its own tartan and get a kilt with that pattern. You could also think about getting a utility kilt. What do men wear underneath their kilt?
Those Scottish gentlemen who do wear kilts will be pleased to know that women are big fans of kilts, Scottish women in particular. Most women polled by the government in Scotland think nothing should be worn underneath that glorious kilt. Are we surprised? Probably not! View Scotland vacations here.
Your account is your portal to all things Authentic Vacations: your quotes, bookings, payments and more! Password Please enter a valid password. Forgot Password Email Please enter a valid email. Thank You! That doesn't mean to say that anyone else can't have good fun designing their own tartan - it just means that they should study the subject a little before starting! I'm getting married soon and would like some Russell ribbon for our bouquets - where can I get it? What we usually try and do if possible is to suggest a ribbon that might pass for the required one.
In this case the 'Rose' ribbon has the same colours as the Russell although not quite in the same place! If you're going to be using a fairly narrow ribbon it will hardly show! Have a look at our on article on Ribbon. We are considering the creation of a tartan for the MacTufty surname. To my knowledge there is no family or clan chief - is there any reason why we could not proceed in creating a MacTufty tartan and calling it a "Family Tartan"?
You're certainly free to design your MacTufty tartan but you can't expect it to be regarded as a clan or family tartan since it is A MacTufty tartan and not THE MacTufty tartan since you have no authority to decide on a tartan that all MacTuftys would wear.
If you were happy for any MacTuftys to wear your design, then its category would change from Personal for you, your family and whoever else you authorised to wear it to what we call a Name tartan - one that can be worn by all of the name. This may sound pedantic but we have to try and safeguard the traditions that surround tartan.
There is a tiny light on the horizon for you of course and that is if your unofficial MacTufty tartan finds favours amongst those of the name, then in time 'by use and wont' it could become recognised as THE MacTufty! I've heard about septs - what are these? Sept is actually an Irish word and we prefer to use the word 'associated' when it comes to linking surnames with traditional clan tatrans.
Associations could have come about by various means - marriage, mutual defence packs, seeking of protection or possibly outright takeovers. Most associated families don't know how their links came about but the happy outcome is that they regard themselves as part of the parent clan and they thus have a traditional tartan to wear.
I want to wear a kilt but there doesn't seem to be a tartan for my surname. There are probably still some purists around who say that you can only wear a clan tartan if you have the clan's name as a surname. If you have some Scottish heritage and want to celebrate it by wearing the kilt then there's nothing to stop you.
Look at the surnames of your grandparents and then your great grandparents on both sides of the family and see if any of them give you a genuine link to a tartan. If you come up with nothing then you can always fall back on what we call a District tartan.
This is one that has been designated as being suitable for people from a particular area - a city or locality in Scotland. If you don't fancy that idea then, then there are quite a few general tartans that can be worn by anyone plus a growing number of 'Fashion' tartans.
At the end of the day you can actually wear any clan tartan that you like even if you don't have a connection, but most people like to feel their use of a tartan is 'genetically' justified - even if it was only that their Great Granny was frightened by a MacDonald!
If in doubt, have a look at our surname search facility. I'm due to get married to an Aberdonian and would like to wear a kilt, although I am English. I have a Scottish great grandfather who was named Cuthbertson. Your website has the Angus district tartan listed. While another site has Angus, Inverness and Lothian.
Please can you confirm which is correct? Statistically Angus seems to be the winner!
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