Well I finally scanned in the old plates I was telling you about. They are from the 1968 edition of Robert Bain's Clans & Tartans of Scotland.

The plate on the left shows all of the Victorian Bells & Whistles and is incredibly elaborate. He is wearing the larger piper's plaid in the Dress MacLeod tartan to match his kilt and socks. Interestingly, Mr. Bain makes rather disparaging remarks about the exaggerations and excesses of the 19th century and yet we can recognize much of it as the "over-the-top" uniform of modern pipers! But thank God no one uses such flamboyant flashes anymore.

The plate on the right shows a kilted gentleman from 1950 wearing a folded plaid in the manner shown in a portrait of his ancestor from 1760. In an affront to many modern sensibilities he is wearing the Cameron of Lochiel tartan for his kilt, the Cameron of Erracht tartan for his folded plaid and yet another unidentified tartan for his socks! Also worth noting is the 3 button daywear jacket. Elsewhere on this forum someone provided a link to a 3 button jacket and the comment was made that most had never seen a 3 button before, only the standard 1 button model. Well, this shows that they were in existence back in the 1950's.

At least that will give you an idea of what I meant by the folded plaid.