Wearing highland dress was banned after Culloden, but it was the visit of George IV to Scotland that sparked massive interest in the romanticised image of tartan and highland dress as we now know it. George IV was the king of Britain and related to the Stuarts, and decided to visit the north of the kingdom. Sir Walter Scott organised a kilt to be made for the king and who came forth but two people claiming to be relatives of the Stuarts, and they called themselves the Sobieski Stuarts (they were just two brothers by the name of John and Charles Allen) but they claimed to have a book written by Charles Edward Stuart detailing all the specific tartans to each clan. They were lying because they were not relatives of the Stuarts. Sir Walter Scott organised this trip to Scotland and could be seen as not only reinforcing highland romanticism which he borrowed a lot from Robert Burns but Scott single handedly brought back highland dress from the ashes and tartan as we know it is all thanks to Sir Walter Scott.
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