Rugby Wear

[OC Richard]

Kilt belts seem to come with a reasonably standard size buckle. Since I live in Texas, that's an average (or a smidge below average) size for a belt buckle.

There are two traditional sizes of waistbelts worn in Highland Dress.

One is the 2.5 inch wide Victorian "dirk belt", worn to support a dirk. Though originally civilian, it was adopted for military pipers in the 1840s and today is regarded as a "military style" belt. It generally came as a set with a crossbelt, which supported a sword.

The other is the slightly narrower, and purely civilian, Evening Dress belt adopted in the early 20th century for use with the then-new Montrose jacket. It was generally worn alone, no dirk, no crossbelt.

Here's full Victorian civilian Evening Dress showing the dirk belt and crossbelt



This style of dirk belt and crossbelt has been maintained to this day by the army pipers



Here are two sets of hardware: left modern chrome-plated, right vintage solid German Silver



A set including plaid brooch, 1930s



The narrower 20th century civilian Evening Dress belt appeared as part of the Montrose jacket



By far the most common pattern of civilian Evening Dress buckle



Here it is being worn