Piper's plaid/Full plaid with an Argyll jacket?

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Well, actually, the gentleman on the left (to the right of my father) iswearing a pleated plaid. I have seen another photograph of him from the front.

There is some misunderstanding here: Most of the gentlemen with my father are wearing what some call a "laird's plaid." Gentlemen still wear them. In the 1930's, when the picture of my father at the Argyllshire Gathering was taken, full plaids were frequently worn, both in the day and in the evening. Gentlemen folded the plaids into pleats in the front part, but these pleats were not the pre-made pleats of perfect depth one sees usually on pipers today.

Here is the late McKerrell of Hillhouse:

His plaid is worn in this photograph with an open fronted doublet.

Here is another photograph, showing a full plaid:


As Louisville is in the grips of a horrific ice storm, and our power is off ( I'm on my laptop at my mother's ), I do not have ready access to the photo from Oban showing the full plaid with day wear. Suffice it to say, it is worn with a tweed doublet, with several buttons fastened. Not excessively cumbersome.

Kind regards,
Sandford MacLean

Thank you SIR. IYHO are the other "Laird Plaides simply being worn with out "pined pleats. & was this not the most common ??

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