An Argyll Is Not Called an Argyll in Scotland?

[Jock Scot]

I’m almost certain that Jock Scot refers to the style as argyle. Could be that the gentleman in the OP is simply extrapolating his personal experience/feelings onto the whole of the highlands.

Well, yes I do, but I do it for simplicity on this website because it's the modern(the last 30 years or so)thing and it's what you chaps new to kilt wearing understand.

As Steve has explained, until recent times kilt jackets were made by individual tailors who have very firm ideas on what THEIR kilt jacket looked like and what it was called. I still see it on occasion even now and even now as an example, one shop will call a fore and aft hat a deer stalker and it will be vice versa in another shop! I can't say that I have noticed that sort of situation with kilt jackets recently though.

A wee story. In my youth I asked the local tailor to make me a kilt jacket and then a whole list of requirements for length, cuffs, buttons, epaulettes, and so on. After I had finished the tailor quietly suggested that I had better find another tailor as HIS kilt jackets were not made that way! In those days there were no argyll, crail, etc., kilt jackets. There were though, Kilt jackets made by MacClennans, Haggarts, Chisholms etc., etc. and with an experienced eye one could tell who made a particular jacket. So, if you saw a style of jacket that you liked then if you didn't know who made it you found out and then went to that particular tailor to make your kilt jacket, suit, sports coat, shooting suit.

Even to this day I will visit different tailors to make specific items of clothing for specific purposes.