WW1 SCOTTISH - O/R'S HIGHLAND CUT AWAY - KHAKI TUNIC - LARGE - RARE

Extremely rare Great War Scottish type o/r's tunic.
I don't think this one could be bettered.
Beautiful condition .
Highland cut away front for wear with the kilt.
Made by Moore and Taggart of Glasgow.
Very good size for WW1 being approx. 38/40 chest.
Khaki lining cloth as found on these tunics.
Argylls brass buttons although there was a set of GS buttons in the pocket when it came to me so likely left the factory with them before the soldier applied his Regimental buttons..
Evidence of having had shoulder titles.
One very small hole otherwise as nice as they come with no moth.
Tunics like this are extremely difficult to find and this I got from a house in Oban.
Tunic only.

The following is an excerpt from an article on Great War tunics from the GWF.

Late war tunics and Canadian tunics did have khaki liners and late war ones also had stitched labels. When troops returned home their old war worn uniforms (which only survived about 1 month of front line wear) were taken off and destroyed, new ones were issued so the troops looked good when they disembarked in Folkestone, Dover etc. For these reasons most surviving genuine WW1 O.R. uniforms will be late war productions and could therefore have tan liners and stitched labels. Indeed I would be far more wary if I saw a tunic with white liner and remains of a paper label. The misunderstanding that all WW1 liners were white with paper labels is quite common.
WW1 seems to have been the swan song for Moore Taggart & Co as military outfitters and they featured strongly in the kitting out of Canadian units over the period 1913-14.
V.G.C.

Code: 57594