Wonderful Play Dress-up Photo
As many members here know, I love collecting old photos of men in Highland Dress.
It's nearly always immediately obvious whether an old photo is a portrait of a man accustomed to wearing Highland Dress on a regular basis posing in his own clothes, or whether it's a "play dress-up" photo, where the photographer's studio has a collection of costumes and props for people to pose in. Often the men are US servicemen on leave in Scotland and alcohol is presumably involved.
I usually pass on the "play dress-up" photos but once in a while one is rather intertaining. It's interesting sometimes to see how many different things are mixed up, and/or how strangely they are being worn.
I just came across this one. It makes for an interesting "kilt-spotter's" exercise to make a sort of a list of all the different oddities.
How many strange things can you spot?
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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