Wow, it seems to be an attempt to reproduce the costumes from Braveheart, more or less.
It seems to be that the Braveheart costumer saw old portraits showing the Great Kilt, and other old portraits showing the Philabeg, the person also wearing a long plaid wrapped around the body. He/she didn't realize that he/she was seeing two distinct forms of dress, and trying to make sense of it all, created a hybrid or conflation of the two.
Of course nothing like that existed, before Braveheart.
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