Names of places and highland attire

[sjrapid]

I've noticed many fellow kilties here have fun with the spellings of various parts of the highland attire we all like to wear so much.

I thought it might help to remember that they're mostly named for places in Scotland:

The name of the jacket with gauntlet cuffs is an Argyll, from the region of Argyll on the west coast.

A variant on this jacket (Prince Charlie cuffs) is the Braemar, from the town of Braemar, home of the famous Braemar Gathering.

The other variant (plain cuffs) is the Crail jacket, from Crail in Fife, east of St Andrews.

The kilt with the funny pleats is the Kingussie, from the c1820 kilt with this type of pleats in the Highland Folk Museum, Am Fasagh, Kingussie.

The bonnet is a Balmoral, as in Balmoral Castle, the Scottish home of the Queen.

The kilt belt is sometimes called a Montrose belt, from Montrose, on the east coast between Dundee and Aberdeen.

Hope this helps!

best regards

[pipesndrumsnun]

The links are great...thanks!

[James MacMillan]

I've noticed many fellow kilties here have fun with the spellings of various parts of the highland attire we all like to wear so much.

What a very nice and subtle way to tell someone that they are stupid and can't spell.

While in this general vane, what is the plural of sgian dubh?

Is it sgian dubhs or sgians dubh?

Pray tell me kind sir.

[gilmore]

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While in this general vane, what is the plural of sgian dubh?

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Do you mean we are trapped inside a weather vane?

[James MacMillan]

Do you mean we are trapped inside a weather vane?

Vane
Vein
Vain

Oh English!

[M. A. C. Newsome]

Hey, I thought this thread was about place names in Highland wear!

Such as:

Inverness cape
Kilmarnock bonnet
Glengarry bonnet
Argyll hose
Sherrifmuir doublet

These are just a few I noticed were left off the list.

[Dirk Skene]

Hey, I thought this thread was about place names in Highland wear!

It was. It got hijacked ;-)

[James MacMillan]

Through common usage, we will finally come to the "correct" spelling. Somehow we now have a standard spelling of sgian dubh. That wasn't true just a few short years ago.

Usage determines spelling.

It may well develop that we will have things something like this:

Argyle = Jacket and hose
Argyll = the town

As kilting, really isn't in the main stream yet, the linguists haven't paid it much mind. I have three hardback paper dictionaries in my place, and different publishing dates. All have wide variants on spelling as relates to the kilt.

As we wean ourselves away from the paper dictionary and towards the web, (which by usage, is more standardized) our relatively small numbers will be able to exert greater influence.

Look what we did with the box pleated kilt!

[sjrapid]

Hey, I thought this thread was about place names in Highland wear!

Such as:

Inverness cape
Kilmarnock bonnet
Glengarry bonnet
Argyll hose
Sherrifmuir doublet

These are just a few I noticed were left off the list.

Thanks Matt, for dragging this thread back towards to its original subject. I'll follow these up.

Best regards

[Oldhiker]

While in this general vane, what is the plural of sgian dubh?
Pray tell me kind sir.

might it Sgian Doobies?