Whatever else it may be, it is not a tunic. That was the OP caption.
As background, the summer full dress for Line was white jacket and trousers, cut loosely but not noticeably lightweight.
However, there is certainly evidence that a very thin cotton equivalent was worn by some, possibly private purchase, possibly regimentally from the soda-water swindle/ fund.
My researches studiously avoid Highland [that way madness lies] but I don't have much pictorially in the way of unusual whites for Line band and/ or drums and would like to see some.
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