Red, blue, and yellow were most common colors. Thongs also acceptable. Can be sleeved or unsleeved, or with removable lace-on sleeves. COAT Sometimes called a jacket, it is cut shorter than coats worn elsewhere, again because of the plaid, and can be of tartan or solid colored woolen cloth. Can be with or without a collar, and with various cuff styles of the period.
Buttons are metal, usually pewter or brass.
Sometimes seen cut shorter than the waistcoat, so that the bottom edge of the latter shows beneath the coat. Combined breeches and hose of tartan wool, cut on the bias. Worn by the well-off for riding, and in colder weather. The garment from which the modern kilt derives, it is simply the belted plaid with the upper half removed and the pleats stitched into place. Unlike the modern version, it consists of loose, unpressed box pleats around the entire circumference, and is held closed with pins or buttons, rather than straps and buckles.