Which outfit is "more Scottish?"

[Phil]

Ian, the original question -- 'way back when -- was: "which outfit better represents highland wear and Scottish culture, a black barathea argyll and waistcoat, a navy blue PC and waiscoat, or a white shirt, grey tweed waistcoat, and flat cap?" I can't think that the member was asking about another time when he was asking what to wear to school to best illustrate cultural diversity in America today.

This is a bit of an oldie which has been resurrected but I have to repeat what I said earlier that a true representation of Scottish dress would be pretty much the same as found in America today. To give the impression that we Scots still bound across peat bogs dressed from head to toe in tartan, giving it laldy on a set of pipes is, I'm afraid, just another of those stereotypes which, to be honest, were never really true and to perpetuate the myth is only to mislead.