Hem, hem. Given the rather artificial nature of clan tartans, but still following in such traditions as may be gleaned, it seems to me that attendants, should they wear kilts, ought to be dressed in the tartan of he whom they are attending.

Pictorial evidence also comes to its aid, for the first person to be painted wearing a recognizable modern kilt, not a belted plaid, appears in a portrait of Alexander MacDonell of Glengarry, the son of the chief who was Rawlinson’s friend. It is interesting to note that, in that portrait, the kilt is worn not by the chief but by his servant- thus emphasizing, once again, its ‘servile’ status.

They are, after all, acting as members of the household, however temporarily.