In contrast to the trews of the Colquhoun figure, this plate illustrates a fashion, introduced into Scotland at the time of the Forty-Five, which allowed the nobility to wear orthodox knee breeches and stockings made of the wearer's particular clan tartan - in this case the Ogilvie. A separate plaid was worn. The sett of the Ogilvie tartan is exceedingly complicated. In a pattern of just under twelve inches, it has no less than eighty-one different widths of the colours red, white, black, yellow, purple and green.

The Earls of Airlie are the chiefs of the clan. David, Lord Ogilvie, son of the fourth Earl, was barely twenty when he joined the Jacobite cause in 1745. He was attainted, and fled to France, where he became a Lieutenant-General in the French Army. In I778 he was pardoned and returned home, and by an Act of Parliament Of 1826 the Earldom was restored to the family.