Highland Morning Dress Equivalent

[OC Richard]

In my younger days (the 1960s) any hired highland dress consisted of a montrose with jabot and diced or tartan hose with a fly plaid and buckle brogues...

This is very interesting! Quite an expensive outfit for hire, especially the somewhat delicate tartan/diced hose.

this was, at the time, the outfit for a Scottish daytime wedding.

As I've mentioned before, as a piper I have played at hundreds of Scottish-themed weddings here in the USA over the last 40 years, and whenever Scots have flown over for the weddings they are invariably dressed in what would traditionally be considered Evening Dress, though the weddings have always been during the day. (The Scots have nearly always worn black Prince Charlie coatees.)

At my own wedding 30 years ago a number of male guests were in Highland Dress, none in Evening Dress, but rather in Argylls of Lovat, charcoal grey, or black.