Fly Plaid at Burns Supper?

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Note that the only thing that distinguishes an ordinary gent's outfit and an ordinary piper's outfit is the style of doublet. (The wearing of Glengarries was quite common among civilians in Victorian times.)

Is it possibly relevant that the very notion of a Burns Supper is based on the "immortal memory" of an event first held in 1801?

Would not accessorization of one's dress for the evening in a manner that might have been appropriate for THOSE times be just as appropriate as modern highland dress?

And, as a corollary obervation (and honest question) is it not the case that many of us in the diaspora have the BRITISH Royalty during their visits to Scotland as the most indelible images on which to base our concepts of contemporary kilted attire? (seconded, or perhaps even surpassed by images of pipers marching in bands?

Richard, are you aware of any images made from people who actually ATTENDED early Burns Suppers?

(I'm generally curious and uninformed, rather than attempting to advance a proposal here).