History has it that Clan Sinclair way up in Caithness wore trews rather than kilts and that once the Campbells of Argyll sent a war party all the way up there to sort them out to enforce a property deal gone wrong or similar slight. The piper of the Campbells (Finlay MacIvor ?) wrote a pipe tune to celebrate the Campbell’s victorious battle, which translated as “Gaffers In Trousers”, a title taunting the Sinclairs.

Does anyone know if the Sinclairs truly preferred trews and why ?