breast pockets on Argyll jacket

[Tobus]

I kind of like the look, myself! The jacket seems to button up a lot higher in the front than most Argyll jackets we see today as well. Would we truly call this an Argyll jacket, or some other style?

On another note, I couldn't help but notice the fellow sitting in front. The aprons on his kilt are reversed from what we normally see on kilts. The inner apron seems to be hanging next to his right leg, not the left. I wonder if he had it reversed due to wear (as I've heard is sometimes done to squeeze more life out of an old kilt), or if it was originally made that way.

[OC Richard]

The jacket seems to button up a lot higher in the front than most Argyll jackets we see today as well.

Like ladies' hemlines going up and down, and the lapels on men's suit coats, and men's neckties, getting wider and narrower, how high a jacket buttoned was just a matter of the current style of the time.

The high-buttoning jackets were the style from the mid-19th century up through the early decades of the 20th. All the jackets seen in The Highlanders of Scotland are like that, as well as in vintage photos:

around 1860:


in 1939:



and more...







BTW that's clearly a civilian jacket, nothing military about it.