What is Traditional Highland Dress?

[Jock Scot]

MacMillan's son.

I doubt that anyone even noticed the demise of the box pleated kilt as standard kilt wear. Most people were too busy getting on with living a fairly mundane life. Besides, in those days change to new things was in vogue. "Old" was dumped as a matter of course and often very swiftly in favour of the "New" latest super duper wizz bang gadget and I suspect that the Box pleated kilt went the way of many things at that time.It was a time when "Old" was out and "New" was in, much like the 1960's that some of us can remember!

Now, I hesitate to mention flat caps here( just so you know,this is a touchy subject), but we have hundreds of photographs of pre WW1 kilted gentlemen, shooting, fishing, walking, bicycling, climbing, posing and whatever, wearing the flat tweed cap, all pretty traditional you would have thought. For some reason, at about that time, that I have never really been able to fathom, until now, the flat cap went out of use as kilt attire. Not only did they go out of favour, they are regarded as a no-no these days(well, to my certain knowledge since 1940) by the kilt traditionalists.

So, by Rex's excellent definition the flat cap was a "fashion" item and as we all know fashions come and fashions go.