Mémoires historiques, généalogiques, politiques, militaires, &c. &c. de la Maison de Grant

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Method of belting the Plaid.
Being fewed, and the broad belt within the
keepers, the gentleman ftands with nothing on but
his ihirt : when the fervant gets the plaid and belt
round, he muft hold both ends of the belt, till the
gentleman adjufts and puts acrofs, in a proper man-
ner, the two folds or fiaps before ; that done, he
tightens the belt to the degree wanted ; then the
purfe and purfe-belt is put on lofely ; afterwards,
the coat and wailtcoat is put on, and the great low
part hanging down behind, where a loop is fixed,
is to be pinned up to the right fiioulder, immedi-
ately underthe fhoulder-ftrap, to be pinned in fuch
amanner that the corner or low-flyer behind, hang
as low as the kilt or hough, and no lower ; that
properly adjufted, the pointed corner or flap that
hangs at the left thigh, to be taken through the
purfe-belt, and to hang, having a caft back very
rtear as low as the belt, putting at the famé time
any awkward bulky part of the plaid on the left
fide back from the haunch, ftuffed under the purfe-
belt. When the flioulder or fword-belt is put on,
the flyer that hangs behind is to be taken through,
and hang over the fhoulder-belt.
N. B. No kilt ought ever to hang lower than the
hough or knee — fcarcely that far down.