kilt jacket

kilt jacket (plural kilt jackets)

1. A short fitted jacket with decorative (often tassled) buttons on pockets and sleeves.
   • 2014, Pauline Greenhill, Diane Tye, Unsettling Assumptions: Tradition, Gender, Drag:

     From the 1970s, with the decline of all-women bands and the increased integration of women into co-ed bands that began as all-male organizations, many female pipers have worn the same clothing as their male counterparts, which often consists of a kilt jacket, kilt, and sporran.

   • 2016, Hannah Reed, Dressed to Kilt, page 42:

     Leith wore a red and gray kilt, red tie, white oxford shirt, and a gray kilt jacket left open.

   • 6 May 2023, Rachel Cooke, “It was ludicrous but also magnificent: the coronation stirred every emotion”, in The Guardian‎:

     An organist wigged out like Rick Wakeman, the diamante lapels of Humza Yousaf’s kilt jacket sparkled, and out in the Mall, the procession began.