19th Century Photos of Kilted Highlanders

[Rollo]

Wonderful

[Teufel Hunden]

Awesome pics!

Ah the good ol' days. When men were men, and sporrans were huge. And if anyone said anything about it, you chopped their bloody heads off!

[Laird O'the Cowcaddens]

They may have been bare underneath,but not a bare face amongst them. Those were the days eh, men were men and sheep and goats were afraid LOL. Seriously, thank you for the view into the past and the opportunity to view these gentlemen in all their finery.

[meinfs]

Oh how I wish that they turned around and had a picture of their behinds taken!

(For the purposes of seeing if they were wearing box-pleats or knife pleats!!

[McMurdo]

Oh how I wish that they turned around and had a picture of their behinds taken!

(For the purposes of seeing if they were wearing box-pleats or knife pleats!!

Given the vintage of these I'd bet they were knife pleats.

[Twa_Corbies]

Oh how I wish that they turned around and had a picture of their behinds taken!

(For the purposes of seeing if they were wearing box-pleats or knife pleats!!

I imagine that they were knife pleated, however I have a few bronze sculptures of Highlanders at the hunt done by the sculptors Montgomerie and P.J. Mene (1810-1877), and the figures on all three of these appear to be wearing box-pleated kilts with fairly wide pleats, with long hair sporrans that have the "Prince Charlie" type flap.

[bchunter]

These photos are great. I'm struck by the number of hair sporrans, and the HUGE size of some of the sporrans.

[Twa_Corbies]

Balmoral gillies, 1856

[Twa_Corbies]

Photographs of John Brown, Queen Victoria's personal Highland attendant, resplendant in all his finery. Note the rather unusual 4 button cuff on his doublet, rather than the more typical 3 button arrangement:

[budd4766]

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Love the double pistols. Bet nobody had the huevos to call HIS kilt a skirt!