Highland dress
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Highland dress is the traditional, regional dress of the Highlands and Isles of Scotland. It is often characterised by tartan. Specific designs of shirt, jacket, bodice and headwear may also be worn.
King Edward VII in a tweed Argyll jacket, kilt and Glengarry bonnet (1904)
James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife, in a plain-cuff Crail jacket (1984)
Highlanders wearing kilts, plaids, bonnets, and an early example of trews; 1631 German engraving.
The Highland Wedding, David Allan (1780)
Sgian dubh
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A sgian dubh is a small, single-edged knife worn as part of traditional Scottish Highland dress. It is worn tucked into the top of the kilt hose with the hilt visible.
Highland dress
…only at very formal events or by the groom at a wedding. There are a number of accessories, which may include but are not limited to: a belt, sporran, sgian-dubh, knee-socks with a cuff known as kilt hose, garters, kilt pins and clan badges. Women's Highland dress is also based on the clan tartan, either that…
Staghorn sgian dubh being worn on the leg
Sgian dubh with and without sheath
Portrait by Henry Raeburn of Alasdair Ranaldson MacDonell of Glengarry in 1812