There is definitely a watermark or something going on here. I blew it up and enhanced it, and if you look to the left (right of the wearer) you can see how the vertical bars go beyond the kilt, from the edge of the jacket down. Also the curved "stripe" is part of this pattern. And if you look close, you can see a definite horizontal bar that travels across both kilt and jacket that all of the verticals connect to, except for the far one on the right hand side. Not sure what it is. Watermark, bleed from something in storage, hard to say. But looking close, it definitely an overlay of some sort.




By the way, I absolutely LOVE this photo. I really like old photos and this is just wonderful. Thanks so much for sharing it!