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The style of the uniforms worn by these pipers of the Highland Light Infantry can be seen today on many of the larger pipe bands.

CONTENTS

SCOTLANDS NATIONAL DRESS

THE EARLIEST FORMS OF HIGHLAND DRESS

THEINVENTIONOF THE KILT

THE VICTORIAN REVIVAL

THE TARTAN: A NATIONAL ICON

HIGHLAND DRESS TODAY

PLACES TO VISIT

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Victorian romanticism personified in all its anachronistic glory, depicted by Robert McIan in his celebrated Costumes of the Clans (1843).