Hello all,

I've just found this site and signed up, looks like lots of people who know what they're talking about. Can anyone help me...I'm interested in and trying to do a bit of research into what was worn in the uk in the mid to late victorian era, especially in Scotland as I am Scottish myself.

I've looked a lot online and found it quite difficult to find what people wore everyday. I've bought a few books...one with very fancy dresses, corsets, bustles etc for ladies that I think must have just been worn by the very rich? My other books are in the highlands and lowlands at that time don't show any men or boys wearing kilts at all? The photos are so dark and in black and white of course, but it seems the women wore white or black bonnets, dress with apron. Most with a shawl..only a couple look tartan, but the photos are so dark in some its quite hard to tell. The men all seem to wear suits. I found some photos on the internet of men and boys wearing kilts and women and girls wearing tartan dresses...but they all seem to have been professionally taken pics. SO, I am wondering now...was it mainly the rich that wore tartan in the mid to late Victorian era, not the working class? Or have I got it all completely wrong? Thanks