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In the modern era, Scottish Highland dress can be worn casually, or worn as formal wear to white tie and black tie occasions, especially at ceilidhs and weddings. Just as the black tie dress code has increased in use in England for formal events which historically may have called for white tie, so too is the black tie version of Highland dress increasingly common.
An arisaid [1] [2] [3] (Scottish Gaelic: earasaid [4] or arasaid [4]) is a draped garment historically worn in Scotland in the 17th and 18th century (and probably earlier) as part of traditional female Highland dress. It was worn as a dress – a long, feminine version of the masculine belted plaid – or as an unbelted wrap.
A young Highland dancer wearing Aboyne dress prescribed for female dancers for the national dances. Another young Highland dancer wearing Highland Dress. 'Aboyne dress' is the name given to the prescribed attire for female dancers in the Scottish national dances , such as the Flora MacDonald 's fancy, the Scottish lilt, and others.
Some sources refer to it as a wedding dress, but it has also been called the Widow's Weeds, after the Victorian term for women's mourning clothing. [80] [81] [82] McQueen previously employed a similar headpiece using antlers and black lace in Dante (Autumn/Winter 1996), which reappeared in his 2004 retrospective show Black. [29] [83] [84]
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The Balmoral bonnet (also known as a Balmoral cap or Kilmarnock bonnet) is a traditional Scottish hat that can be worn as part of formal or informal Highland dress. Developed from the earlier blue bonnet , dating to at least the 16th century, it takes the form of a knitted , soft wool cap with a flat crown.
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Doublet is the term describing any of several types of jacket worn with Scottish highland dress; referring to both uniform and evening jackets. Uniform doublets are found in a number of different styles. Commonly they are short cut with four Inverness flaps skirt and buttoned gauntlet cuffs. It can be any colour depending upon the regiment.