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  2. Argyll jacket - Wikipedia

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    James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife in a plain cuff Crail jacket. (photograph by Allan Warren, 1984) The Argyll Highland jacket is a shorter than regular jacket with gauntlet cuffs and pocket flaps and front cutaway for wearing with a sporran and kilt. It can be of tweed, tartan or solid colour material. The Argyll is the standard day wear jacket ...

  3. Doublet (Highland dress) - Wikipedia

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    The Argyll jacket and tweed jackets are appropriate for day wear. [1] Different tailors describe similar jackets using different names. This garment is similar to a mess jacket, with buttoned gauntlet cuffs, short or no skirts, and with or without lapels. It may have a row of silver heraldic buttons on each side.

  4. Independent Highland Companies - Wikipedia

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    Cairn marking the site of the Battle of Mulroy where Kenneth Mackenzie of Suddie was killed leading his Independent Highland Company. After the restoration King Charles II raised several Independent Highland Companies. [8] In 1666 he allowed the Earl of Argyll to raise a company or "watch" of 60 men for one year for the purpose of guarding his ...

  5. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders - Wikipedia

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    A sniper of 5 SCOTS (The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) during Exercise Boar's Head at Otterburn Training Area in February 2012. On 28 March 2006, as part of the restructuring of the infantry, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders were amalgamated with the other Scottish infantry regiments into the single Royal Regiment of Scotland. [47]

  6. 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 ...

  7. List of tartans - Wikipedia

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    Company design England: Created in the 1920s, this pattern is known as the "Burberry check". It was originally used as a lining in the company's trench coats. Clan McDuck: Disney: United States: Created in 1942 for Donald Duck universe/Duck Family features, possible "#1 variant." [211] DunBroch/Merida Disney United States Created for the 2012 ...

  8. Highland dress - Wikipedia

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    King Edward VII in a tweed Argyll jacket, kilt and Glengarry bonnet (1904) Highland dress is the traditional, regional dress of the Highlands and Isles of Scotland. It is often characterised by tartan (plaid in North America). Specific designs of shirt, jacket, bodice and headwear may also be worn. On rare occasions with clan badges and other ...

  9. List of nicknames of British Army regiments - Wikipedia

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    The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers [3] The Dandies – 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots [27]; The Death or Glory Boys – 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) later 17th/21st Lancers, then Queen's Royal Lancers [1] [3] (from the regimental badge, which was a death's head (skull), with a scroll bearing the motto "or Glory")