A gent's highland wedding outfit

[OC Richard]

It's interesting to read an article on this topic (a Gent's Highland wedding outfit) in an old catalogue I just got:

The Scottish National Dress

Wm Anderson & Sons Ltd
Edinburgh & Glasgow

The date of publication can be inferred by:

By Appointment To His Late Majesty King George V.

(He died in 1936.)

On page 21 is the following:

"Highland Dress For Weddings and Courts

There is frequently some doubt as to what constitutes correct Highland Dress for use at Weddings and other Full Dress functions, and the following notes may be of assistance.

The bridgegroom should be in full dress, consisting of a buttoned up coat, kilt, sporran, hose, buckled brogues, belted or short plaid, dirk belt and dirk. A typical outfit of this kind is illustrated. (The illustration shows a man wearing buckled ghillies, castellated tartan hose, kilt, sealskin modern Evening Dress sporran, Kenmore doublet, lace jabot, belted plaid with brooch, and Balmoral.) It should be used by the bridegroom and the best man whenever the bride is in full bridal array. Incidentally, it is readily adaptable for evening wear afterwards.

An alternative is permissible, especially when the wedding is in the country, is that a jacket of the ordinary day shape should be worn, but that this be made of dark grey or black material. This latter dress is also the correct one for a guest at a wedding. Except when the bride is in ordinary dress and the male guests in lounge suits, a tweed jacket is not strictly correct, though sometimes worn."