Piqua Heritage Festival kilting advice needed

[Woodsheal]

A modern knife-pleated kilt is "close enough" for the 1860's, as are today's glengarries and balmorals. For affordable waistcoats of the period, go here:

http://www.blockaderunner.com/Catalog/catpg11b.html

Appropriate shirts can be found on that site as well:

http://www.blockaderunner.com/Catalog/catpg15.htm

With a waistcoat, you can skip the belt (and no man of that period would appear in public in just his shirtsleeves!)....