What is your recommendation for a good book about highland dress?

[Macman]

What OC Richard has said is virtually all you need to know.

But to add a few titles to the 'reading list', I would suggest C. R. Mackinnon of Dunakin's 1960 book 'Tartans and Highland Dress' which details with illustrations various forms of Highland dress for different occaisons and levels for formality. Sir Thomas Innes of Learney (then Lord Lyon) has a chapter devoted to Highland dress and how to wear it, in his 1947 'Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland' and there can be no more 'correct' view than his.

Johnston and Bacon's 'The Scottish Tartans' has been published in various versions all through the 20th century, and has well known and often reproduced sketches of characters representing the clans in different forms of formal, informal, day and evening wear as were fashionable at the time of publication. These are a good source of pictorial reference for what to wear for what activity, or on what occasion.

I bought Dunakin's book about fifty years ago and it was my "go to" book for my early kilt-wearing years. I still refer to it from time to time.