Jette wrote:
> tigermorph64@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>> 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!
Maybe so but I feel that is misrepresented as well. The basis for the
garment was there way long before this development made it easier to
put on or wear. It's rather like saying so and so invented blue jeans
just because so and so was the first to put a zipper on them and make
them easier to get in and out of.
Ivory
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