Jacobite Kilt Wear Question

[IsaacW]

If I were playing harp I would wear trews.

Kilts really weren't designed for sitting.

I tend to agree very much with this.

Here's an 18th century seated musician in trews. I'd go with this.

To be picky, I have to say that Gow is actually wearing breeks and tartan hose in the above image. He is shown wearing this combination elsewhere as well. It is quite noticeable when you see that the breeks/breeches are cut on the straight and the hose are on the bias. Historically speaking, this is an awesome combination. A chap I know that plays fiddle/violin has recently made a set like this from some tartan he got from Peter MacDonald and they look sharp as heck.

For a set of trews worn like this a bit later in the period...



Last summer I made a pair of trews and love them... http://frenchinwisconsin.com/2016/08...century-trews/
(edited to note that if OCRichard follows the link, he will be happy to see no catalin on the pipes I am playing. Unfortunately, they were a borrowed set. Some day in the future, I will have a set appropriate to 1790s).