Creator: NationalMuseumsScotland on 8 Apr 2011, 1 p.m.
In Highland dancing competitions, female dancers wear a velvet jacket with gold or silver braid edging and gold or silver buttons, over a white shirt with lace ruffles at the neck. They wear a kilt and tartan hose, and black laced gillies, or dancing shoes.
Extracts of film showing the Sword Dance at a Highland Games in the 1960s.
Video © SCRAN Scottish Media Group
Audio © BBC Scotland
Created by: NationalMuseumsScotland on 29 Mar 2011, 3:49 p.m.
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