Highlanders Discuss Highland Attire

[MacLowlife]

One more example of how things used to be better-

Before the Industrial revolution, EVERYBODY got to wear hand loomed cloth, all of the time. And they didn't have all of those processed foods, either.

[ThistleDown]

One more example of how things used to be better-

Before the Industrial revolution, EVERYBODY got to wear hand loomed cloth, all of the time. And they didn't have all of those processed foods, either.

Yes, but by the time of the Industrial Revolution the common man in the Highlands had already given up the kilt. The cloth still handloomed was used for voluminous trousers and shirts and jackets made at home.

[ThistleDown]

Matt, I don't think we know that in the Highlands. Anselll's and Landseer's romantic images were just that, surely. My ggg-grandfather was kilted and he had for years a kilted piper in his employ, but there was not another kilted servant or farmworker or shepherd. This isn't a guess on my part; the records are there of the cloth purchased and for what purpose. And that's in Ross-shire, not in Aberdeenshire or Angus.