Well, here was the thing with the tartan.
My name has no Scottish element, so I couldn't find a link to any tartan.
The first time I bought a kilt (as a grown up) was for a Burns Night, so ... I thought, maybe a Burns tartan?
I discovered that Burns does not have a tartan.
But ... (I hope I've got this right) ... the Burnses had a clan allegiance (yes??) to the Campells of Argyle. So the nearest tartan to what I was looking for was a Campbell of Argyle ... which is quite a nice tartan.
But I remember reading that the Campbells were some sort of enemies of some other clan, or something of the sort, and there were some towns where the Campbells are not welcome.