OT- KIlts at war, was: Re: [Sca-cooks] national talk like a pirate day

[Brett McNamara]

You sure that wasn't a girl scout? ;)

It's probably worth mentioning that the kilt we see today, the one
most often seen on Catholic school girls, is quite OOP.  The best
evidence for the period version has it looking suspiciously like plaid
togas.  I believe the modern variant may have been part of some
British conspiracy.

Wistan

On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 10:36:48 -0400, Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
<adamantius.magister at verizon.net> wrote:
> Also sprach Bill Fisher:
> >You mean the same as seeing the Irish and Scotish kilts at war, when at best
> >in period the Scots belted the brats at the across their back as a habit to
> >differentiate themselves from the Irish soldiers?
> 
> Although it has been disputed, there's a pretty ample supply of
> evidence that some Scots soldiers did wear fillamores into battle,
> and I have even seen a drawing from the 16th century, I believe, of a
> Scottish boy wearing what looks suspiciously like a fillabeg variant,
> long before its officially acknowledged introduction.
> 
> Adamantius
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