European Men's Wear 1700–1770
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of approximately 10 items of early to mid-eighteenth-century men's wear main garments, such as coats, waistcoats and breeches, dating from 1700 to 1770. The most significant of these is a rare Scottish coat of hard tartan dating from the 1740s.
Fashionable men's wear during the early to mid-1700s was dominated by matching or co-ordinating coats, waistcoats and breeches. Changing styles were reflected by the use of different fabrics and changes to the specific cut of the garments, such as the size of the cuffs and skirts on a coat. In the early 1700s coats were cut with wide cuffs and full skirts, and worn over long-fronted waistcoats. By the middle of the century tailoring favoured smaller cuffs, slimmer skirts and curved fronts. In the Scottish Highlands tartan coats with shorter skirts were often favoured and worn with a feileadh mór (belted plaid) or trews.
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