Jacobite shirt origins?

[OC Richard]

It's been puzzling me pretty much since I started kiltwearing: where did the "Jacobite" shirt come from?

One thing we can be fairly certain of, it didn't come from Jacobites.

Because no such shirts existed in 18th century Scotland, or most probably in 18th century anywhere.

People often connect them with Hollywood, specifically Brigadoon and the scores of Pirate films made in the 1920s through 1950s.

What makes me bring this topic up now is that I'm reading the story of the 1889 baseball season and a number of clubs wore shirts much like Hollywood/Brigadoon/pirate/Jacobite shirts back then.

The baseball shirts don't have the huge puffy sleeves, but they have the same lace-up fronts, and widely spread collars.

As far as the timing goes I'm not sure how late baseball clubs wore those, but it just might have been late enough to dovetail with the early Hollywood Pirate films. Is there a connexion? Who can say. Hollywood costumers have always loved laces and filled their historical films with laceup shirts and waistcoats and bodices and dresses and wrist-things.

As to how these shirts became associated with kiltwearing, as far as I can tell it started in the USA, where Highland Dress is often associated with Colonial times in the popular imagination. (Hollywood uses those Brigadoon/Pirate shirts in Colonial films too.)

Anyhow here's a late-19th century Boston baseball shirt, Pirate style shirts in Anne of the Indies and Brigadoon, and for a bonus, from The Sea Hawk, the sort of waistcoat often associated with these shirts (yes it laces up too).