HRH Prince Charles in Highland Evening Attire - Let's Take a Look!

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A bit of a side track here but, what is the significance of the salmon to the Argylls? It is a potent symbol of the MacDonalds as it hearkens back to a story of our clan founder Somerled agreeing to take leadership of the Island men only if he caught a salmon. Just then, the story goes, he got a bite and pulled a large salmon out of the water. There has hence forth been a salmon on the Arms of Lord Macdonald and many of the other Macdonald chiefs.

Does anyone know how this symbol applies to the Campbells of Argyll?

I posted this above:

The present Duke of Argyll has very similar buttons on his doublet of claret velvet, which makes sense, since the Macleans and the Campbells are traditionally located in the west coast of Scotland in Argyllshire, where the salmon was held sacred as a totem or a talisman by many clans in that particular area. The same can be applied to my own clan and other Clan Chattan clans with the Scottish Wildcat as a totem, and also the crest of several Clan Chattan clan chiefs and armigers.

I have entertained the idea of having silver buttons of the elusive, Scottish Wildcat (in the passant attitude) made and affixed to my velvet doublet. Quite the expense, so we shall see.