Popular tales of the West Highlands : orally collected . Highland Dress, 1742. Copied from a book kept at the Horse Guards— 42d Regiment of Foot, formed from the Independent Conifianies ofScotland in 1739. The tartan varies from all others in that the coloursare disposed in diamonds instead of squares. Coat and waistcoat red. instead of six. The wide web was put on by foldingit backwards and forwards along a belt laid on theground, lying down upon it, and fastening the beltround the waist. One half of the cloth fell in folds tothe knee, the other half was fastened up to the shoulder, 378
Popular tales of the West Highlands : orally collected . Highland Dress, 1742. Copied from a book kept at the Horse Guards— 42d Regiment of Foot, formed from the Independent Conifianies ofScotland in 1739. The tartan varies from all others in that the coloursare disposed in diamonds instead of squares. Coat and waistcoat red. instead of six. The wide web was put on by foldingit backwards and forwards along a belt laid on theground, lying down upon it, and fastening the beltround the waist. One half of the cloth fell in folds tothe knee, the other half was fastened up to the shoulder, 378 CELTIC DRESS. and in wet weather was raised over the head. Atnight, the whole could be cast loose and worn as ablanket, and the wearer -was often buried in his plaid. This striped blanket, then, ought to be a very ancientform of dress, and the early dress of most nations issomething like a kilt. The Greeks and Eomans, for. Pipers and Peasant Boy. Sketched at Inverness and on the west Highland Dress, with the plaid and kilt as separate example, wore kilts, and their great men wore a broaderweb of cloth variously wrapped about their bodies, asprimitive people elsewhere in the world still do. Thedress ought to be old, and it is old. The modern alter-ation is but an improved method of sewing the foldsof one half to a band, and wearing the rest of theplaid over the shoulder, and in so far, but in no othersense, the dress is modern. WEST HIGHLAND STORIES. 3 79 Again, it is said that gentlemen did not wear theHighland dress, that it was the dress of peasants,churls, outlaws, and such like, but this is surely anerror. Every Highlander thinks himself a gentleman bybirth, and often behaves all the better for holding theojDÌnion. The wearers of the kilt now include manytitled names ; George the Fourth and the Duke ofSussex wore it; the officers of the Elack Watch andPrince Charley wore
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