"Day plaid"?

[slohairt]

Gentlemen, please!

A day plaid that is two yards (or two metres or whatever you like) just hangs over the shoulder like Jock describes his. Unless you are really small in stature, you wouldn't be able to wrap it around your chest as shown in the old illustrations. You would need at least three or four yards for that. Those men are wearing it a bit like a piper's plaid, except looser fitting and definitely not pleated lengthwise. It wouldn't surprise me if some of them were made from single width cloth (27"-29").

Day Plaids, Laird's Plaids, or Shepherd's Plaids don't really seem to have an "official" length save that they appear to fall within the range of 2-4 yards.

[cavscout]

This is getting rather silly.

On this we can agree.

And after all this banter....

In any case they did the the same job, but they are not the same thing.

.... so a blanket by any other name.... ith:

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/305250.html

[Jock Scot]

Well as we are talking highland Scots attire ,shall we call it plaid?

[cavscout]

Fair enough

[HarborSpringsPiper]

At the risk of flogging a dead horse, I have a question about the gentleman who is third from the left facing away from the camera. I assume this is a day plaid that he is wearing draped and not folded as as the other gents, with the longer part hanging over his right shoulder. I'm trying to figure out what is going on with the other end of the plaid. Is it just going across his chest, over the left shoulder and other end affixed somehow? Or is that other end going under his right armpit, coming up over the front of the right shoulder and held in place by the bulk of the longer end of the plaid hanging down? Or is the plaid going over the top of the right shoulder, under the right armpit and across the back to have the short end hanging over the top of the left shoulder? And now that I re-read that I'm not sure it makes sense or that I want to try any harder to make it any clearer!

Reading your descriptions, Jock, I have come to realize that people probably just threw these on however and would think it ridiculous that somebody would even question in what fashion it was hanging. I guess I and many others are so used to seeing piper's or drummer's plaids that are "fixed" in some fashion that these are novel, to me at least.

Just noticed the nice shine on all the brogues.

[Paul]

Oh - I'll need to get myself a nice stick too!

[Mael Coluim]

Oh - I'll need to get myself a nice stick too!

Argh! It's a cromach, Paul!

[Paul]

Argh! It's a cromach, Paul!

In Glasgow we call them sticks!

as most people wouldnt be able to tell the difference between this:



and THIS:



seriously!

[McClef]

Isn't the bottom one the item you throw for the dog to retrieve?

[Nick the DSM]

Isn't the bottom one the item you throw for the dog to retrieve?