Regional association with jacket cuff styles?

[David Thorpe]

Thank you to all. Rather like the Isle of Skye, Holyrood and Bannokburn tartans then.

[artificer]

Thank you to all. Rather like the Isle of Skye, Holyrood and Bannokburn tartans then.

Not quite. The Isle of Skye was designed by a woman living there, the Holyrood tartan was designed to commemorate the Queen's silver Jubilee.

The jackets cuffs are more properly called "Mariner's Cuffs", "Gauntlet Cuffs", and plain cuffs.

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[M. A. C. Newsome]

Lots and lots of items in Highland Dress have regional names. Sometimes they have historical reasons behind them, but more than often it's just a name given to the style for marketing reasons.

One example is the Kilmarnock Bonnet. Kilmarnock was once the bonnet making capital of Scotland, so the name makes sense.

But most of these other examples have no such rationale.

Argyle jackets
Inverness capes
Balmoral bonnets
Glengarry bonnets
Argyle kilt hose
Sheriffmuir doublet
Montrose doublet
Crail jacket
Braemar jacket

Some more recent examples I have seen in catalogs:
Culloden shirt
Glen Urquhart sgian dubh

[creagdhubh]

Personally, I am rather fond of the Irn Bru jacket.

[David Thorpe]

Personally, I am rather fond of the Irn Bru jacket.

Orange tweed?

[Steve Ashton]

We have just passed a law.
It is now illegal to wear an Argyle Jacket anywhere but in Argyle, Scotland.
You may also not wear a Prince Charlie Coatee unless your name is Charles Edward Stewart.

Please turn in all your, now, illegal jackets to me.

[Downunder Kilt]

That's what I like to see Steve, an astute businessman Once you have collected the illegal jackets, can I see a Royal pardon comming on to allow the resale of the jackets

[artificer]

We have just passed a law.
It is now illegal to wear an Argyle Jacket anywhere but in Argyle, Scotland.
You may also not wear a Prince Charlie Coatee unless your name is Charles Edward Stewart.

Please turn in all your, now, illegal jackets to me.

When Argyll Jackets are outlawed, only outlaws will wear Argyll Jackets.

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[creagdhubh]

Orange tweed?

Indeed, David! Lol!

[theborderer]

My new jacket from EBay has, as you see, two buttons and only one small button on each cuff. It is a Dark Green wool jacket from Moss Brothers ex hire and cost 20 GBP. Because I wear a Heritage of Wales kilt I have changed the buttons to matt gold buttons with a dragons head.
What style is this ??

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