I was just looking through
The Kilt: A Manual of Scottish National Dress
Loudon MacQueen Douglas FRSE, FSA Scot.
1914
and I see no mention of any alternate colour-schemes, only a mention of weight, "Superfine" being indicated for Levee Dress.
BTW he consistently uses "vest" (the word "waistcoat" does not appear) while catalogues from the 1930s use the two words interchangeably. Thus the concept that "vest" in an American coinage is unfounded. I do wonder when the meaning of "vest" shifted in Scotland. (It's said, in linguistics, that a language seldom has two words of identical meaning for very long; one or the other will shift its meaning.)
Last edited by OC Richard; 23rd September 21 at 05:15 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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