LOOK at the SELVEDGE!!!

[ozone]

hey! that last picture shows the guy wearing a skirt, not a kilt since there is no apron. What gives, oh wise MAC Newsome?

[pipesndrumsnun]

Hmm...the first guy looks like he has a boa constrictor slung over his shoulder. I didn't even know they had boas in Scotland; a cousin of Nessie, perhaps?!

[Casper]

hey! that last picture shows the guy wearing a skirt, not a kilt since there is no apron. What gives, oh wise MAC Newsome?

I'd guess that he's just English.

[McMurdo]

I'd guess that he's just English.

I found this on Mungo Murray regarding the painting

Sir Mungo Murray, 1668 - 1700. Son of 2nd Earl of Atholl
about 1683

Lord Mungo, the fifth son of the Marquis of Atholl, is dressed for hunting. He wears a belted plaid - a double width of tartan about five metres long, belted around the body to form a kilt and cloak. This traditional highland costume is worn with a fashionable doublet. He holds a flintlock sporting gun and carries two pistols in his belt. He also has a dirk and a ribbon basket sword. His servant, in the background, carries a longbow, used for hunting deer. Lord Mungo died young, fighting the Spanish in Panama in Central America.

Sorry i should have posted this earlier this is a link to Matt's page with the potrait in case you want to reads up on why his feilidh-mhor looks the way it does:

http://www.albanach.org/drawstring.htm

[Woodsheal]

hey! that last picture shows the guy wearing a skirt, not a kilt since there is no apron. What gives, oh wise MAC Newsome?

You can't apply modern kilt construction concepts to belted plaids of 300 years ago! The pleating was not uniform, and often extended around the entire circumference of the kilted portion. Note that the piper's "apron" opens to his left, too. His "boa" is a fancy sword baldric