Figure 1.--Here we see a CDV portrait an unidentified boy wearing a Scottish Glenngerry cap, called a bonnet in Scotland. The portrait is undated, but we would guess the 1870s. Notice the nall top and large rosette cockade. The studio was C. Evans in Worcester, England.

Most of the portraits we have found with boys wearing Glengarries are from the 19th century. They may have been worn by boys with Scottish family connections. Much more important was Queen Victoria and the Royal fanily popularuzing all things Scottish. The Royal family had a huge impact on fashion. They made Scottish styles popular in England as well as other coubtries. Kilts and other cottish styles were not worn outside Scotland until Queen Victoria began dressing the princs in kilts. Unfortunately we have very few English photographs from the 1840s and 50s. Photography was not as common in England as in America. We do begin ro see Glengarries in the English photographic record in the 1860s with the advebt of the CDV and thesudden appearance of large numbers of photographic portrait. . We are not sure just when the portrait here was taken, but the 1870s seems likely (figure 1). We do note English boy, John Montagu Slopford wearing a Glengarry in London during 1871. We see some images of English boys wearing Glengaries in the 20th century, but after the turn of the 20th cenury, this becomes much less common and almost always with boys wearing kilt outfits.

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