I have in the past had questions about kilt jackets. Please refer to the photographs of John Brown (Queen Victoria's groom) in these links:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...d-America.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...x-scandal.html

Please see the original black and whites, not the modern re-enactment. In these photo's John Brown appears to be wearing a conventional tweed jacket, except possibly in the photo with his dogs.

Would it be proper for me to conjecture that what we accept as the modern style of civilian jackets are actually an innovation from the post 1890 period?