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    Sorry, yes, I didn't include everything.

    Under Evening Dress he also states

    The Skean Dhu (sic) is a small dagger which should be placed under the garter of the right leg, being worn on the outside.

    He has a third category of dress, Scottish National Dress for Levees.

    The following are the directions issued by the Lord Chamberlain's Office, St James Palace, London for the Scottish National Dress for Levees.
    Black silk velvet full dress Doublet. Silk lined.
    Set of silver Celtic or crest buttons for Doublet.
    Superfine tartan full dress kilt.
    Short trews.
    Full dress tartan stockings.
    Full dress long shoulder plaid.
    (What we call a "pipers plaid" today.)
    Full dress white hair sporran. Silver mounted, and tassels.
    Patent leather and silver chain strap for sporran.
    Full dress silver-mounted dirk with knife and fork.
    Full dress silver-mounted skean dhu.
    Patent leather shoulder-belt, silver-mounted.
    Patent leather waist-belt, silver clasp.
    Silver-mounted shoulder brooch.
    Silver kilt pin.
    Lace Jabot.
    One pair of buckles for instep of shoes.
    Once pair of small ankle buckles for shoes.
    Full dress brogues.
    Highland claymore.
    Glengarry or Balmoral, crest or ornament.
    Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte

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    Quote Originally Posted by OC Richard View Post
    Sorry, yes, I didn't include everything.

    Under Evening Dress he also states

    The Skean Dhu (sic) is a small dagger which should be placed under the garter of the right leg, being worn on the outside.
    Scotty Thompson said the same. I remember my father saying to him "bit what if I'm left-handed".

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