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2. Highland dress - Wikipedia

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   In the modern era, Scottish Highland dress can be worn casually, or worn as formal wear to white tie and black tie occasions, especially at ceilidhs and weddings. Just as the black tie dress code has increased in use in England for formal events which historically may have called for white tie, so too is the black tie version of Highland dress increasingly common.

3. Prince Charlie jacket - Wikipedia

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   Formal black tie Highland regalia, kilt and Prince Charlie jacket. The Prince Charlie jacket is a formal black-tie jacket for Highland dress that was initially listed in tailor catalogs of the early 1920s as a coatee. Over the next couple of decades it became called a Prince Charlie (PC).

4. Full plaid - Wikipedia

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   A full plaid, or just a plaid, is a long piece of tartan fabric, most often worn as part of a Highland dress. It usually matches the tartan of the kilt . A modern full plaid is pleated the whole way, with half of its length sewn shut (so that the pleats cannot open).

5. Trews - Wikipedia

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   Trews (or truis, Scottish Gaelic: triubhas) are men's clothing for the legs and lower abdomen, a traditional form of tartan trousers from Scottish Highland dress. Trews could be trimmed with leather, usually buckskin , especially on the inner leg to prevent wear from riding on a horse.

6. Belted plaid - Wikipedia

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   The word plaide in Gaelic roughly means blanket, and that was the original term for the garment.The belted plaid has been and is often referred to by a variety of different terms, including fèileadh-mòr, breacan an fhèilidh; and great kilt; [a] however, the garment was not known by the name great kilt during the years when it was in common use.

7. History of the kilt - Wikipedia

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   Highland soldier in 1744, an early picture of great kilt, with the plaid being used to protect the musket lock from rain and wind.. The belted plaid (breacan an fhéilidh) or great plaid (feileadh mòr), also known as the great kilt, is likely to have evolved over the course of the 16th century from the earlier "brat" or woollen cloak (also known as a plaid) which was worn over a tunic (the ...