Quote Originally Posted by MacMillan of Rathdown View Post
I think that if you were to group the pictures by era, you'd see that the gentlemen are dressed very much according to the "rules" of the time in which they lived. Seeing these pictures out of sequence tends to give the impression that there were no standards of dress, in much the same way half a dozen baseball cards from the teens, 30's, and 70's might give the casual observer that there were no "rules" regarding the uniforms worn by ball players.
Good point MacMillan, it would be helpful to know the timeframe for each of the paintings so that we could better tract the changing trends of kilt wear through time. I'm sure that what we consider proper today will in time be judged outdated too.