Full plaid

As Plaid ( Scots " woolen cloth, blanket ," so gäl. plaide with the same meaning, in modern English as " checkered " ) refers to relatively thin, often patterned rugs. Plaids are often made ​​of high quality pure new wool, for example, from alpaca wool.

Plaids, known in German as " shoulder ceiling", in addition to the kilt part of traditionallen clothing Highland Scots. They are usually made ​​of the same fabric as the Tartan kilt. Plaids are folded and worn loosely over the shoulder or fastened with a brooch at the shoulder. The plaid, part of the full dress military bagpipe player, a woolen cloth of about 3.5 yards long and 1.5 yards width (full plaid or plaid piper 's called ). It is folded several times parallel to the long edge, wrapped around the torso and secured to the left shoulder of a pin. As part of civilian formal wear smaller rugs are worn occasionally, which are attached only at the shoulder and loosely hang down ( fly plaids ). They are usually square with an edge length of 1 to 1.5 yards.

A so-called Belted Plaid was part of the Scottish Clans clothes before the introduction of modern kilts.

Scottish officer with fly plaid, 1875

Bagpiper with full plaid, 1921

Piper in full dress

Members of the Irish Air Corps Pipe Band with plaids on the left shoulders

Lots on the shoulder -worn plaid