THE HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COSTUME

ALBERT RACINET

THE CLASSIC WORK OF THE 19TH CENTURY

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TRADITIONAL COSTUMES OF THE 1880s




SCOTLAND

TARTAN AND THE CLANS



Upper Register
1.27- A Highland gentleman of the Ogilvie clan, wearing white plaid - fashionable in 1745 - over a doublet.

1.28- A Davidson clansman, wearing his plaid as a hood. This was a popular style in the inhospitable weather of the Western Highlands.

1.29- Charles Edward Stuart - "Bonnie Prince Charlie", figurehead of the '45 rebellion - wearing the Stuart tartan and carrying a velvet bonnet with a white rosette.

1.30- A Buchanan clansman, wearing a small flat bonnet that carries the clan's emblem of a tuft of leaves.

1.31- William, Duke of Sutherland, who raised a regiment in 1759. He is wearing the regimental costume.

1.32- A shepherd of the Macmachtans clan, turning his head into the wind. His flat bonnet is is tipped forward to shield his face.

1.33- An 18th-century costume of the clan Macintyre, which shows that despite the Prohibition Act of 1746 the Highlanders managed to preserve their traditional dress.




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