Highland dress

Highland dress
n [U]
the traditional costume worn by Scottish men on formal occasions or as a military uniform. Its main parts are a tartan kilt (= a man’s skirt with folds, that reaches to the knees), a sporran (= a flat bag made of fur or leather hanging in front of the kilt), and a small knife which is stuck in the top of one of the stockings (= long socks).
➡ note at clans.

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