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Every clan in Scotland has a tartan, which is a design woven into the cloth they use to make garments for formal occasions. You know what the cloth in a kilt looks like, correct? That's a tartan. (Hundreds of years ago, clans would fight wars against each other, so the tartans were like the uniforms modern soldiers wear.) Tartan pants are pants made from this cloth. Kilts are great ceremonial garments, but they're not very practical--it's very hard to farm or log in a kilt because it keeps getting caught on everything, so pants are better. In the US, they're probably just a fashion statement.

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