Fly Plaid at Burns Supper?

[TheVintageLibertine]

Is it possibly relevant that the very notion of a Burns Supper is based on the "immortal memory" of an event first held in 1801?

Would not accessorization of one's dress for the evening in a manner that might have been appropriate for THOSE times be just as appropriate as modern highland dress?

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Richard, are you aware of any images made from people who actually ATTENDED early Burns Suppers?

(I'm generally curious and uninformed, rather than attempting to advance a proposal here).

I would hazard a guess that group of friends and admirers who started the tradition of celebrating Burns’s works and memory on his birthday in 1801 didn't wear clothing that was particularly “Scottish” because the “tartan craze” didn’t happen until several decades later.