Atholl Highlanders on parade

**figheadair** · 28th May 23, 10:35 PM

The Atholl Highlanders on parade at yesterday's Atholl Gathering. It is always amazing to see so many original plaids, 1830-40, still in use.

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**Jock Scot** · 29th May 23, 02:31 AM

Looking sharp there, old chap.

Those that follow the "matchy matchy" train of thought could do well to take note of the Atholl Highlanders total disdain of such details.

**OC Richard** · 29th May 23, 04:26 AM

I realise that the situation with the Atholl Highlanders is different, but those lighter-coloured plaids remind me of the officers' plaids worn in Victorian times, which were lighter in colour, and generally smaller in sett, than the trews or kilts worn together with them.

Hard to judge from photos but I suppose that the plaids are a lighter-weight finer cloth than the kilts or trews.

Here, the Colonel's plaid on the left.

Here, all the officers' plaids.