Quote Originally Posted by Wil
Thanks for your reply. Thanks for the correction on the tartan. I think it is a slip of the mind more than anything.
It happens to the best of us!

As to the drape, I wasn't quite sure what it was called. What first came to my mind was sash. I checked a site and they must have had the terms wrong also.

After your comment, I checked several sites (such as http://www.kinlochanderson.com) and the closest is the Fly Plaid as you suggested. But the wearing of the item is different than I thought.

If you pin the tartan on the left shoulder, drape it across your front, down to the right side,then bring it back up across your back, is there a term for this or is this improper wearing of the tartan?
Well now, Wil. First of all, men do not wear sashes, but their ladies do as part of their full evening dress, or when, as members of a team giving displays of Scottish Country Dancing! Ladies' sashes are usually made of silk, and the sett of the tartan is generally much smaller than that of her partner's kilt. They can be worn across the body or can hang loose from the shoulder.

The man's Fly Plaid is worn as I described previously. I have never known it to be wrapped around the chest!

On the other hand, a military Piper's Plaid, which is about 3½ yards long, is worn pleated across the chest from the left shoulder, runs under the right arm and across the back up to the left shoulder again. From there, it hangs down the back to about shin length - just a few inches from the ground. This plaid is made from the same tartan fabric as the kilt, and is a very bulky and rather cumbersome part of the uniform. It is not usually worn by civilian pipers, who are more likely to wear the Fly Plaid - or no plaid at all!

To wear the Plaid in the way you describe, Wil, would be unconventional and, I would say, incorrect. Who knows, though, you might start a new trend if you did!