The belted plaid (breacan an fhéilidh) or great plaid (feileadh mòr), also known as the great kilt, is likely to have evolved over the course of the 16th century from the earlier "brat" or woollen cloak (also known as a plaid) which … See more

• Dunbar, John Telfer (1979) [1962]. History of Highland Dress: A Definitive Study of the History of Scottish Costume and Tartan, Both Civil and Military, Including Weapons: With an Appendix on Early Scottish Dyes. Edinburgh: B. T. Batsford. See more

Sometime in the late 17th or early 18th century the small kilt (fèileadh beag, anglicised as filibeg or philabeg), using a single width of cloth … See more

A characteristic of the Highland clan system was that clansmen felt loyalty only to God, their monarch, and their clan chief. The See more

From 1624, the Independent Highland Companies had worn kilts as government troops, and with their amalgamation into the Earl of Crawford's Highland Regiment, 43rd (later 42nd) Regiment of Foot, in 1739, their small-kilt uniform was standardised with a … See more

• Late 17th-century belted plaid
• "We will remember", War detectives, archived from the original on 26 March 2007, retrieved 28 December 2006. Heroic and overlooked … See more