The scarlet dress doublet was not worn after the Second World War, being replaced for ceremonial occasions by the blue No.1 dress doublet. Although it lacked gold lace, the gauntlet-style cuffs retained gold braid button-hole loops and edging. The plain collar continued to display the embroidered badges, although this illustration by Colonel P. H. Smitherman (1910–82) makes them appear smaller than they should be. Gold shoulder cords carried the officer’s rank, with embroidered stars and crowns.
The headdress is the blue Lowland bonnet cocked, which replaced the more formal stiffened Kilmarnock bonnet after the war. Other ranks had worn the Lowland bonnet since the First World War, but officers in dress uniform between the wars still wore the stiffened Kilmarnock. This illustration is dated 1959, showing the Lowland bonnet in its final years, as it was replaced by the Glengarry cocked in 1961.
The officer wears a full, bunched crimson sash over his left shoulder. This was the ceremonial sash worn by officers and by the RSM, who also wore it on the left. Sergeants and WO2s wore a flatter sash on the right shoulder. At this time the RSM also carried his sword in the same manner as the officers, suspended from a white shoulder belt with a gilt and silver belt-plate.
The trousers are in the Leslie tartan, worn with white spats and black polished brogue shoes.
