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2nd March 25, 01:31 PM
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 Originally Posted by User
Oh, that's a fantastic look! I hope to own kilt hose like those someday.
What's that brown band with metal discs on the top of your kilt?
The brown band is cotton twill tape, it, in varius colours, was popular for binding the top of a kilt from the second half of the 19th to the mid-20th centuries. Matching tartan band, which only match at the front of course, became popular with massed production in the second half of the 20th century. That does not mean that there weren't kilts with a tartan band earlier; there were, but they were less common and usually used a different tartan for the band.
The metal disks are buttons for braces and are the original ones from c.1920 which I reused when the kilt was resized to fit me.
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