If you take your 4yard plaid for a feileadh-mhor and cut it length wise in the middle, you can simulate Liam Neison's garmet from "Rob Roy." By tucking the excess plaid (the shoulder piece), one can create the appearance of a feileadh-mhor. TRY IT! It will take some practice, but it can be done. This is what they probably did for the film. That's why some folks think he was wearing a feileadh-mhor and not a feileadh-beag.

Now, the actor playing Rob Roy's younger brother... I think they put him in a feileadh-mhor.

(The come on to Mary Scene): After Liam's swim/bath, I think he just puts on one of the halves of the plaid... Probably the half that was used as the upper portion. Interesting scene, b/c Highlander's typically only bathed once a year back then.

Interesting side note....
In 1998, when I worked at the STM with Matt... One day the tartan material from that film that Liam Neison wore was in the Museum.....

Matt came out of the office and says: "Hey Daniel!"

Me, "What?"

Matt, "touch this tartan"

I touch the tartan...

Matt, "Do you know what this is?"

Me, "No, but it looks familiar."

Matt, "It should, Liam Ne.....

you get the story.... sorry, I had to brag.

From what I've learned, the "Ancient Kilt style" used in Braveheart is not historical. Hollywood just could not make a film about Scotland's greatest hero and not put him in a kilt.. Hence the "Ancient Kilt." Think about it, the average person wouldn't recognize him as being Scottish without seeing him in a kilt.. So they probably theorized the width of the kilt from the width of a loom. If you watch your Braveheart DVD extra's, you'll see the "Irish Army" extra's fasten kilts to themselves that have draw strings (as my memmory serves me).. And the extra's kilts seem to be made from less yardage than Mel Gibson's kilt...