I recently read an article about THCD in the context of piping competitions, in which the author stated:
“Another personal dislike of mine is the cut-off or shortened jacket, which a small number of competitors sometimes wear. By this I mean a jacket which looks like a normal kilt jacket from the shoulder down but stops short at the waist front and back, reminiscent of the old army battledress blouse. My objection to such jackets is that they show too much kilt at the front, giving the figure an unbalanced appearance, and at the back they show the stitched upper part of the pleats, which are better not to be seen.”

Here is the link to the article: https://pipingpress.com/highland-dre...ress-part-two/

It sounds like he means a daywear type coatee, as opposed to an eveningwear type such as the PC or a mess jacket. Have you ever seen an example of a daywear coatee, apart from uniforms? What are your thoughts?