This led fans to point out Jamie had worn his kilt in front of redcoat soldiers during the season five opener.
As Outlander is the on screen adaptation of a series of bestselling novels written by Diana Gabaldon, the author responded to fans’ questions.
She noted the English forces weren’t as strict about enforcing the tartan law decades after Culloden: “Nobody cared to enforce a law like that — pointless in the Colonies in 1770-ish.”
In 2019 she tweeted: “Neither was there a large force to spare; the British regulars couldn’t cover even a third of the territory — thus the push to enlist Loyalists to militia companies.”
Outlander is available on Starz in the US and on Starzplay in the UK.
