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THE HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COSTUME
ALBERT RACINET
THE CLASSIC WORK OF THE 19TH CENTURYp254-255
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.
2.2- A lady from the Sinclair clan, wearing a blue skirt made from mixture of wool and cotton, and a long scarf in the clan tartan that covers her head. At one time it was the custom to pin this scarf to the chest with a brooch made from silver, bronze or copper.
Going barefoot, as this lady does, is a common practice in the Highlands, and should not be taken as a mark of poverty.
2.4 A Colquhoun clansman of the 18th century, with a flat cap that carries the clan's emblem. His tunic is decorated with brass buttons and his full-length plaid is worn crossed over at the chest and attached at the shoulder by a silver brooch. His trousers, or trews, carry the same tartan as the plaid.
2.6 A dairymaid from the MacNicol clan, wearing a tonag - a square of tartan worn as a small shawl. The silver brooch used to hold this in place is usually a treasured family heirloom, handed down from generation to generation.
2.11 A Farquharson warrior after the Battle of Culloden in 1746, wrapped in a large plaid and carrying a large, hatchet-tipped pike.
3.13 An Urquhart clanswoman draped in an arisaid - a large plaid of sufficient size to cover the wearer from head to toe. Her hair is worn in plaits.
3.15 A woman and child of the Matheson clan. The woman is wearing a striped yellow arisaid, held at the chest by a large brooch and gathered at the waist by a belt, whose end dangles down over the plaid.
The bodice is made of scarlet material, embroidered with silver and decorated with buttons set with precious stones.
3.17- A horseman from the MacNeil clan, wearing trews. His jacket is held tightly at the waist by a belt, and needles made from deer bones keep his flat cap turned up and hold its plant badge in place.
