Show us your Vintage Kilt Photos

[Tartan Shortbread Jock]

Dad and his brother.

[heilanner]

two vintage pics to add to the collection.


The Gordon Highlanders piping during WWII (from my grampa's collection of photos - he was in the Gordons during the war)


my grampa (left) and his brother Willie (i think) on the right. i don't know why my gramps's not wearing his kilt in this. taken sometime in the 50s.




Edit: i'm just going to link to the pictures as for some reason they refuse to show in the thread. hmm...

[Ancienne Alliance]

A photograph of the Most Honourable The Marquess and Marchioness of Huntly, at the Coronation of HM The Queen in 1953. Lord Huntly (aka the Cock of the North) is wearing Highland Court Dress as laid down by the Lord Chamberlain. Of note is the absence of a plaid.

Sir, I beg you : Please put back all your lovely photos if you still have them somewhere.


Best,

Robert

[Spartan]

Here's a picture that I discovered in a family album that belonged to my maternal grandmother. The picture was taken circa 1890 in Alpena, Michigan. I don't have a name with the picture. An assumption would be that he is a family member of the McRae family -- my grandmother was a McRae -- her parents were Adaline and Duncan McRae. I would be interested in any comments about the picture.

[skauwt]

28th Clan Chief Roderick Donald Matheson Chisholm of Chisholm

Obtained a Commission as Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion Seaforth Highlanders
died of TB aged 24

[JRB]

I'm really digging that sword. Scottish hand-and-a-half swords are rarely seen and very little known, but they do indeed exist.

[McMurdo]

Ozark Ridge Rider posted a link to this photo in another thread, I just had to add it to my photobucket collection and to this thread.

[Rex_Tremende]

David and I rented the DVD of The Duchess, the 2008 movie based on the life of Georgiana, the Duchess of Devonshire, as portrayed by Keira Knightley. Georgiana landed her title through William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire. In Wikipedia, I was following the succession of Dukes of Devonshire, reaching the 9th, Victor Cavendish, who was appointed by the well-kilted George V as the 11th Governor General of Canada, succeeding Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, the son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, also appointed Governor by George V, his nephew.

There I came upon this photo of Prince Arthur in this Scottish finery.

A very large version is also available.

Regards,
Rex.

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

Judging by the wig, the dress Stuart tartan (?), and the white cockade, I'd guess HRH is portraying Bonnie Prince Charlie in one of those ever popular Tableaux that seemed to be a feature of week-long house parties before the Great War.

You can just see the handle of his dirk (which matches the sgian dubh), and doubtless the sword would have been part of the suite. He is also wearing the cordon of the Order of the Thistle, in case anyone was wondering what the "sash" was.

[BoldHighlander]

Mr. Harry Lauder was a popular Scots entertainer, performer, balladeer and poet, famous throughout the English-speaking world. His son John Lauder, was killed on the Western front in December 1916.

from: a Scots Minstrel on the Western Front