In the 1950's if you wore highland dress your wore a tweed jacket and waistcoat during the day and, in the evening, a Montrose of Military double breasted doublet made of velvet. Long-haired sporans had pretty well disappeared apart from a few aristocratic families who tend to pass these things down from father to son. In fact Stewart Christie mentioned by MacMillan of Rathdown managed to survive by altering their clothing for this purpose and are still going strong. By the 1960's people were far more interested in the youth fashions of the day and virtually no-one wore highland dress apart from the dancing and Mod fraternity, everyone else went CASUAL - bell bottom pants and mini-skirts. After Margaret Thatcher managed to alienate 99% of the Scottish population in the 1980's kilt wearing suddenly became a statement of identity again and by the 1990's was the uniform of choice for every international rugby and football match and also for weddings and other formal events. The hire companies responded to this new demand by supplying "one size fits all" garments such as kilts with 3 straps which could accommodate a variety of shapes and because the Prince Charlie didn't button up it could stretch across a range of waistlines and became the standard outfit. In fact it became much like Henry Ford's dictum "Any colour you like as long as it's black" with the result that (almost) everyone nowadays regards highland dress as this pastiche created by the kilt-rental trade of Prince Charlie with white hose and ghillie brogues. What the pictures posted earlier demonstrate, though, is that the only dress rules in Victorian times were that there weren't any. If you got an invite to a royal knees-up then the Lord Chamberlain had a set of rules telling you exactly what you could wear, otherwise high society types knew exactly what to wear and proles like us just didn't get invited, couldn't afford the fancy dress, and had a great time getting drunk at ceilidhs.