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[OC Richard]

1901 style clothing... I have been asked to be in full formal kilt wear with PC jacket

Late to this thread, but I don't think the Prince Charlie Coatee existed at that time. In the 1920s it was being spoken of as a quite recent thing.

The formal jacket would have been the Doublet, which we call the Regulation Doublet today. It was by far the most common Highland formal jacket from the mid-19th century up through the 1920s when it was supplanted by a number of new Evening jacket styles (Prince Charlie Coatee, Kenmore Doublet, Montrose Doublet, Sheriffmuir Doublet). The old Doublet was afterwards regarded as oldfashioned.

This is not a criticism directed at you or anyone else in particular, but I can't help but notice how frequently here in the USA functions which are set in various time periods of the past are attended by people in modern Highland Dress, as if Highland Dress exists in a strange timeless world not connected to the progression of time in the Real World.

Examples are Dickens Balls, Civil War Balls, Colonial Balls, and so forth, inevitably attended by men wearing Highland Dress all or in part of the style which didn't appear until around 1920.

Anyhow here's a c1900 outfit with the fashionable high collar and long tie. Yes I know this guy is a piper, but the only thing that you wouldn't see on a non-piper's outfit are the wings on the shoulders of the doublet.

It was very popular at this time for doublets to have trim as you see here. Long hair sporrans were universally worn. Glengarries were very popular amongst civilians, both pipers and non-pipers. Balmorals became all the rage in the 1930s through the 1970s, Glengarries then being relegated to the military, mostly. Before around 1930 this was not the case, with Glengarries and Balmorals being equally popular in civilian dress.



Here are a number of kilted people in 1909. Note the trimmed doublets, long hair sporrans, etc. Yes the guy in the middle is a piper, the others are not, and all are dressed in the style of the period. Twenty years later this sort of dress would be regarded as hopelessly out of date, twenty or thirty years earlier and the doublets would probably all be plain.

In the centre group of three note that only the piper is wearing a Glengarry, and that the piper's sporran isn't a long hair one, but a large short-fur one. In the group of three to the left note the guy in the Day Dress of the period.