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2. Arisaid - Wikipedia

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   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.

3. Tartan - Wikipedia

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   Close-up view of traditional tartan cloth, showing pattern of diagonal "ribs" of colour; this is a five-colour tartan, in scarlet red, black, yellow, azure blue, and crimson red. In more detail, traditional tartan cloth is a tight, staggered 2/2 twill weave of worsted wool: the horizontal weft (also woof or fill) is woven in a simple ...

4. Highland dress - Wikipedia

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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.

5. Regimental tartan - Wikipedia

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   The earliest image of Scottish soldiers wearing tartan (belted plaids and trews); 1631 German engraving by Georg Köler.[a]Regimental tartans are tartan patterns used in military uniforms, possibly originally by some militias of Scottish clans, certainly later by some of the Independent Highland Companies (IHCs) raised by the British government, then by the Highland regiments and many Lowland ...

6. File:42nd Regiment drummers' plaid tartan, centred, zoomed ...

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   The pattern dates to 1795 records of Wilson & Son of Bannockburn, the main military tartan weaver of the era, but it is unclear if this sett was ever actually used by the unit. The pattern is based on Black Watch with the black over-checks removed, and yellow ones added over green and red ones added over blue and black.

7. List of tartans - Wikipedia

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   The regimental version of this tartan differs somewhat from the clan version. Another tartan was created in 2018 (approved in 2020) in honour of the Royal Logistic Corps, [6] but it is for civilian use and is a fundraiser for the RLC's MoD Benevolent fund; it is not used for regimental uniform. [7] 18 Red Robertson: 19 Hunting Fraser: 22