A Scotch Highlander in tartan kilt, with sporran, bonnet with plume, and long stick.
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2529 x 3814 px | 21.4 x 32.3 cm | 8.4 x 12.7 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
1826Photographer:
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A Scotch Highlander. "Beside the cap, the dress of the men is the brechan, or plaid, twelve or 13 yards of narrow stuff wrapped round the middle and reaching to the knees, often girt round the waist, and in cold weather covering the whole body, even on the open hills all night, and fastened on the shoulders with a broche; short stockings tied below the knee; truish, a genteeler kind of breeches and stockings of one piece; cuoranen, a laced shoe of skin, with the hairy side out, now very much disused; the kelt [kilt] or fillebeg, the little plaid or short petticoat, reaching to the knees; and lastly the pouch of badger [sporran] or other skins with tassels that hangs before them." Handcolored copperplate from Charles Lamb's "A Book of the Ranks and Dignities of British Society" (1805).