Quote Originally Posted by Jack Daw View Post
John McD could be wearing one, but only because the picture isn't clear enough. The others, such as the piper above, don't look to be wearing a belted plaid to me. The giveaway is the lack of fabric above the belt as an extension of the front apron. It wouldn't just disappear.
Sandy, are you referring to the kind of plaid that Matt reconstructed from Erskine? Separate, but attached to a belt? this photo rather looks like one of those to me.

Are we just getting horribly confused by overloading the term "belted plaid" (which in my memory usually means the breacan an feileadh). I begin to see Matt's wisdom in naming the other one "half-belted plaid!"