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This category describes traditional and historic clothing from Scotland. Modern Scottish clothing should be categorised under Scottish fashion or Clothing companies of Scotland Subcategories
Several tartans for Cornish families have been created and registered in modern times, e.g. for family get-togethers and weddings. Most of the following have been registered with the Scottish Tartans Authority or with Scottish Tartans World Register (reference numbers shown below, where applicable), and thus are also included in the newer database of the Scottish Register of Tartans.
The original name of the cloth was tweel, Scots for twill, the material being woven in a twilled rather than a plain pattern. A traditional story has the name coming about almost by chance. Around 1831, a London merchant, James Locke, received a letter from a Hawick firm, Wm. Watson & Sons, Dangerfield Mills about some "tweels".
Macsween of Edinburgh is a Scottish company, known for making haggis. [1] Macsween is a family company [2] established as a butchers shop in Bruntsfield in Edinburgh, opened by Charlie and Jean Macsween in the 1950s. [3] [4] Their eldest son John Macsween took over and expanded the business with his wife Kate after Charlie died in 1975.
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.
The original commercial development of the cake began in Dundee in the late 18th century in the shop of Janet Keiller [4] but was possibly originally made for Mary, Queen of Scots in the 16th century. [5] It was mass-produced by the marmalade company Keiller's marmalade who have been claimed to be the originators of the term "Dundee cake". [6]
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A soldier of the Royal Scots Fusiliers (right) wearing a tam o' shanter in 1942. In the First World War, a khaki Balmoral bonnet was introduced in 1915 for wear in the trenches by Scottish infantry serving on the Western Front. This came to be known as the "bonnet, tam o' shanter", later abbreviated among military personnel to "ToS".
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