Thanks for the welcome. As for being related to Meriweather Lewis, I'm not entirely sure. I'm not entirely sure he is sure either. But it would be cool to find out!

Quick question - when you say "hose" you mean essentially the stockings that go to the knee, right? Just making certain I've got the right terminology.

And thanks for all the terrific links, guys. This is really helping me a good deal. Especially the old images!

BTW, the story I'm writing is a Sherlock Holmes tale. The Scot in question is his friend--Dr. John H. Watson, MD, late of the British Army Medical Department, 5th (Northumberland Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot & 66th (Berkshire) Regiment.

;)

The going convention is that he was born in Edinburgh, raised in Australia and then England, received his first degree at University of Edinburgh, received his MD at University of London. He may be a British gentleman, but he's also Scots through and through--with a darned pretty family tartan, if I may say so.

About darn time someone put that man in a kilt. It's gonna be me. I hope.
--tashaar