tigermorph64@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Feb 6, 4:08 pm, Shomeret <JDChronic...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> In the most recent issue of Scotland magazine, there's an article
>> called "50 Things You Never Knew About Scotland".
>> Among the fifty was that bagpipes were originally Roman, that Mary
>> Queen of Scots liked to play billiards, that Robert Burns published
>> his first book in order to raise money for a trip to Jamaica in order
>> to become a plantation manager there. His first book was so
>> successful that he decided to stay in Scotland. An English Quaker
>> named Thomas Rawlinson introduced the kilt to Scotland because he
>> found it more practical than traditional Highland dress for his
>> Highland employees at his iron smelting works to wear. Five thousand
>> years ago there were huts at Skara Brae in the Orkneys that had indoor
>> bathrooms connected to a plumbing system. (Methos got tired of using
>> an outhouse.)
>>
>> There were also one page profiles of Arthur Conan Doyle and Sean
>> Connery in which I learned that the Connery family came from Ireland.
>> Most Scots-Irish that I've heard about are Scots that settled in
>> Ireland.
>>
>> There was also an article about emigration from Scotland that
>> uncritically accepted extremely prejudiced statements about
>> Highlanders made by Alexander Irvine in 1802.
>>
>> Shomeret
>
> That kilt thing simply cannot be correct.
> Kilts were around way before George Fox created The Religious Society
> of Friends.
>
>
Well, to be technical the modern garment we call "a kilt" isn't what
was worn by the Highlanders. Originally the plaid was not stitched
into pleats. Each time they put it on they had to lay out the several
yards of fabric, fold it into pleats, slide the belt into place under
it, then lie down and arrange the folds around themselves. There's
some evidence that some individuals had experimented with stitching a
channel in place for the belt, so that the pleats more or less stayed
in place when the garment was taken off, but the actual *kilt* with
its pleats stitched in place on a foundation of canvas and with a
waistband wasn't devised until the early 19th Century, by a mill owner
in Scotland who was tired of having his workers turn up late every
morning!
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Jette Goldie
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