Quote Originally Posted by puffer View Post
GENTLEMEN, Since I seem to be the one to have "SPARKED INTEREST" In wearing the "LAIRD's PLAID", I would respectively like to make a couple of comments.

1 McMurdo, I APPLAUD your willingness to "try" the "LOOK"

2. Comments on the following "concepts "
A. It was not "daily wear" . Depends on the definition of "daily wear. Yes it worn @ "Highland games" BUT ALSO regularly worn @ other "EVENTS" Parades, Reviews,Horse Races,Parties, Funerals, etc (see the 1st pic you posted ) It was worn as a part of ATTIRE" ( your 3rd picture) It was worn for strolling, picnics, Family outings, hunting ETC)
PURSUE here. http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/s...316/index.html

B. THEATRICAL. IMHO, it depends on who & why it is being worn. If it is worn to "POSE" then it can be, but then again, this would apply to ANY "LOOK". BUT if it worn as a PRACTICAL & regular "accessory" then NO!!

C. Why I often choose the "PLAID" over my Inerness Cape.
Example yesterday. It was a sunny but CHILLY Day (40s). My schedule was, a 4 mile walk (to & from) "Down town". Include a meeting with a county commissioner, some "casual shopping", & lunch. Why I choose the "Plaid" over the "Cape" = MORE PRACTICAL.(IMHO) Less "cumbersome. But MAINLY, because I was in & out, (meeting, stores,Pub.) "Doffing the "cape = what to do with it ? Doffing the "Plaid" = over my arm,folded beside me etc.

YOU ARE CORRECT, the "LAID's PLAID" is NOT for everyone. But I am pleased to see that it is being considered. The choice to wear or not to wear is up to who, what & where, IMHO.

Respectively
PUFFER
To puffer and every one.

Until I had seen the title here on this website, quite a while ago now, I had never heard the description of a "day plaid" described as a "lairds plaid" and with out doubt I can recall many highland "gentlemen" who would never describe themselves as lairds, carrying the plaid at various outdoor functions. Don't forget that in the "day plaids" hay day only the better off (slightly better off in some cases) could afford the kilt and assorted kilt attire and that would have included many a laird, but I have never ever seen or heard that the "day plaid" was exclusive to Lairds. My experience says that is quite wrong.

As a garment to do a job it was the best that we had at the time,there are much better garments these days to do the same job. Having carried a "day plaid" around as a young man at various outdoor functions and found them an absolute bind to cart about, I was delighted to get rid of mine. Although, I have to admit, when I see the pictures of the past with people wearing them I do have pangs of nostalgia. As for today, I really think they are, at best, unnecessary and at worst, a posers tool.