What is Traditional Highland Dress?

[Jock Scot]

I am not sure of the history of the deerstalker and the fore & aft, but yes, I think you are right Rex, the game keeping ,ghillie, and perhaps shepherd route is the obvious thought. Considering the desire for our recent ancestors to wear everything and anything Scottish that they could whilst enjoying the various outdoor pastimes, they were an obvious choice.

THCD----- thank goodness some one, David I think, had the wit to shorten things down, well done!

Traditions do not have to be X number of decades old before they qualify, no wrong word,---- emerge as a tradition. They all had to start sometime and that could be today, tomorrow, next year who knows when. That is why I say,"I know it when I see it" rather than relying on some written down something or other, which in fact don't exist in most cases.

The genuine Regimental, university, school, club tie is traditionally regarded as a " wear by right" by those that belong or belonged to that particular group in the UK and whilst not a hanging offence to wear a tie that you are not entitled to, it is very much regard as a social no-no here by most. There are many, particularly from the military side of things , rightly in most people's UK(the Commonwealth too) eyes, do take serious exception to people wearing a tie that, well yes quite rightly in this case, they are not entitled to do so.

Now there are plenty of "regimental,school,etc" style ties about, that will offend no one, that look very much the part and if that is the look that is required by you. In my view that look is very much THCD.