Originally Posted by
tripleblessed
Your stock of photos never ceases to amaze me. Do you have any info accompanying the one of the gent in
shepherd's check? Wonderful to see that being worn so. And I really like his jacket.
Yes that photo is cool in so many ways, so typical of the Highland Dress of the third quarter of the 19th century, the same dress captured in colour in The Highlanders Of Scotland.
His dress features
-Glengarry worn with civilian dress
-ordinary jacket worn with Highland Dress
-dark waistcoat with light jacket
-check kilt with contrasting selvedge
-brown-grey long hair sporran worn with Day Dress
-selfcoloured hose with contrasting cuffs (we can guess that the hose are taupe, with red cuffs)
-civilian spats as would be worn with trousers at that time
The only info I have is the photographer: W. Young, Birnam, Dunkeld (now often called Dunkeld & Birnam).
Last edited by OC Richard; 16th January 19 at 08:07 AM.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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