Older brother is a kilt kop

[Allan Thomson]

I suppose there is precedent from way back when the modern thing all started with the visit of George IV (but his were pink, I understand)!

If we're talking about precedent then isn't there contemporary images of highlanders with belted plaid over trews?

But trews we're a lot more like the aforementioned running tights then...

[Troglodyte]

If we're talking about precedent then isn't there contemporary images of highlanders with belted plaid over trews?

But trews we're a lot more like the aforementioned running tights then...

How about these -

EB Highlanders 3.jpg

Pen sketches by Edmund Burt in the 1720s - a generation before the last Jacobite rebellion and the subsequent Dress Act banning Highland dress in the Highlands.

The character on the left appears to be in trews with a wrapped plaid, the second seems to be sporting a belted-plaid with bare legs, next is in kilt over trews with wrapped plaid, and the fourth in trews with belted-plaid open around his shoulders. So at least three different forms of plaid-kilt-trews combos.

However, it is important to remember that Burt was describing what he saw, and not neessarily what he understood - and his illustrations were to be taken as example, or visual explanation, to accompany his Letters.

[Allan Thomson]

How about these -

EB Highlanders 3.jpg

Pen sketches by Edmund Burt in the 1720s - a generation before the last Jacobite rebellion and the subsequent Dress Act banning Highland dress in the Highlands.

The character on the left appears to be in trews with a wrapped plaid, the second seems to be sporting a belted-plaid with bare legs, next is in kilt over trews with wrapped plaid, and the fourth in trews with belted-plaid open around his shoulders. So at least three different forms of plaid-kilt-trews combos.

However, it is important to remember that Burt was describing what he saw, and not neessarily what he understood - and his illustrations were to be taken as example, or visual explanation, to accompany his Letters.

That was exactly the example I was thinking about thankyou