[Sca-cooks] Togas and Kilts

[Elaine Koogler]

Also, though it is late in period and a lot more complex than the modern
kilt, the great kilt was period...it started out as about 7 yards of fabric
which got hand pleated, the wearer then would lie down in the middle of the
pleated fabric and roll it around him, holding it in place with a belt.  The
left over fabric would then be pinned with a large brooch over the
shoulder.  And it looks incredibly wonderful on a man!!  At least on mine
when I can get him to wear it!

Kiri

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius <
adamantius1 at verizon.net> wrote:

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> On Aug 25, 2009, at 6:22 PM, Elise Fleming wrote:
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>  Uhhmm... I could envision His Grace in a toga or a kilt-like garment
>> (since kilts aren't period?).
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> FWIW, I believe I've seen 16th-century drawings of a young man in a
> single-loom-width plaid pleated around his waist, with just a few inches up
> above the belt.
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> Not exactly a modern kilt, but very close.
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