My passion for kilts is a huge one for me it’s not just a fashionable and timeless piece of clothing it brings a connection. In particular for me the Strathclyde Welsh/Celtic tie ins. Then of course the ancestors who started the Stewart line and others. At the moment though the Welsh connections from Scotland to Cumbria down Cornwall through Wales and my 50th great grandfather Cunedda with those direct and indirect genealogical connections is fascinating
Kilts bring for me all those things into a tangible connection and they can for others too as they look into their own dna and family tree with its many branches. But remember DNA washes out and dwindles after time so one can’t rely on results alone . Also it occasionally goes to a broadly spectrum of broadly Northwestern European and that factors in to where a lot of clans originated like Flanders, Denmark and Norway along with France etc. As I’ll explain later how those clan founders came to serve the Kings of Scotland.
I still have to go into the Strathclyde connections and all the connected tartans and the border clans with family ties and intermarriages.
In closing get a kilt, get allot of kilts! They always look good no matter the time of day or the time of year! On a quick note I’m opening a Kilt shop online… more to come on that
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Under the Kilt .. a look into kilts 