Quote Originally Posted by Guthrumironhead View Post
It’s Lord Howe. He instituted changes to uniforms of the units serving in North America. He shortened coats and generally streamlined the uniforms to better serve the terrain and type of warfare. He also made the light infantry a thing. Belted plaids in dense forest, not so good. Little kilts or breeches, better.
Yes, indeed. All the above taken as given. I should have made myself clearer. It was the detail "The Highlanders have put on Breeches and Lord How's Filabegs" which caught my attention, and which is being taken by one re-enacting group in the northeast US literally to mean wearing "Breeches with the Filabeg", that it underneath the kilt.

My feeling is this might be an excess of enthusiasm.

I should add, while I am about it, that I am also curious as to the specific influence that Lord Howe, neither Highlander or colonel of a Highland corps, might have had on the filabeg worn in 1758, that warranted his name being attached to it.