Highland Dress Catalogs

[bookish]

I have seen many images from the estimable OC Richard from various catalogs of Highland wear. I wonder how many individuals are collectors of these catalogs, and I would like to know if anyone has the drive or interest to scan and share catalogs. I would find it useful and interesting to have these posted (especially under the Library forum topic). I understand that these are likely prized collector's items for aficionados of Scotland's national dress, and that one wouldn't want counterfeits to hit the market. However, I think it would be a great resource for the community.

For my purposes, I am presently working on a personal website whose topic will be my exploration of Highland dress, and I have been mulling over topics that I find interesting to write articles on. On the topic of Highland wear as fashion, and trends in Highland wear in the market over time (which I believe OC Richard has commented on quite a bit), seeing catalogs and being able to contextualize these changes would be a terrific resource. I wouldn't want to trod on anyone's active research, though.

For anyone that might be interested in the website, I'll likely post more about that as I get closer to launching the thing. I have the domain registered and I have my "brand" identity worked out. My design system for individual HTML entities is about a quarter done for the number of pages that I plan to launch with. I have been sidetracked by potential non-issues, like how I can make a static website that not many people will be interested to view even less interesting to web-scraping for LLM (large language model) training data. I'll try to have my "proof of concept" version of the website up with at least one article early 2026.

Anyway, I hope that some of you will be interested in sharing what info you have on the history of Highland dress in sales catalogs through the decades.