This gentleman is attired in the first style of the little kilt. Approximately nine yards of tartan and plaited like the great kilt, it was fastened aroung the waist with a strap. Half a yard was left unfolded at each end and overlapped in the front. This was the direct forerunner of the modern kilt. Many clans had more then one version of their tartan: "clan" "hunting" or "dress".

About the beginning of the seventeenth century the "feile-beag" ( the little kilt ) began to show up.

One could wear one or a combination of the tartans. The dress tartan, however, was usually kept uniform throughout the costume and reserved for formal occasions.

If he belonged to a sept (offshoot) of any clan he wore the tartan of that clan if his sept had no tartan of their own.