
Originally Posted by
Dale Seago
Aye, the style of kilt (more or less) is a couple hundred years old; but the cuff style harkens back to a still-earlier period when the feileadh mor was still more commonly worn than its descendant, the kilt more or less as we know it now.
Mind you, some might prefer the "gauntlet" cuff for precisely that reason, as a way of "linking" earlier and more recent forms in a "flow" of tradition. I'm totally fine with that.
For my own part, I have clothing specific to the early-to-mid 1700s (including "accessories" such as broadsword and dirk that I'm totally competent to use in physical conflict) and to our current sartorial fashions, but I don't usually mix them.
You forget one thing though, the argyll cuff is still very much in use and is very much in fashion STILL, in the Highlands!
Last edited by Jock Scot; 8th January 11 at 01:20 AM.
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