celtic confederate jackets worm with kilts

[REECE]

I felt sure ther were some people out there who would have an idea what i am after.i wear a kilt and all my highland gear when i reinact as a scottish highlander.i wear a plain uniform with stars,much like general lee when im leading my troups to victory against the evil oppressers.sometimes we all get a little carried away with all this.one of my irish ancesters was with co.e 40th mississippi infantry,captured and railroaded to chicago ill. To prison.he survived to fight another day.i am 1st lt.commander of mcintosh guards camp#1853.buy the way i say happy birthday today to one great soldier and agreat man of god gen.thomas j. Jackson cs born 1824.ya,ll have a nice night ya hear.reece

[OC Richard]

Note that none of my posts contained anything political or specific to the matter of the Confederacy but concerned fashion and period dressing in a general sense.

I mentioned the visual issue of wearing a predominantly grey kilt with a grey jacket, a problem both when the shades of grey match and when they don't. It had nothing to do with the fact that it was a Confederate jacket or the Confederate tartan.

I mentioned the problem of mixing 20th century items with 1860s dress. This had nothing to do with the fact that the 1860s dress was Confederate.

(The only remotely political thing was me stating that my ancestors fought for the North.)

Back to the topic of keeping things period-correct in general, something just dawned on me, a trap or potential pitfall that hounds those who dabble in Highland Dress.

The American public in general has a vague notion of the dress of various periods. They know that powdered wigs and kneebreeches and buckled shoes go together as part of 1770s dress; they know that stovepipe hats and long frock coats and beards go together as part of 1860s dress.

It would look odd to just about anybody to have somebody dressed in full 1770s attire but wearing a beard and stovepipe hat.

But for some reason to the "general public" any and all items of Highland Dress somehow exist outside the boundries of time itself.

I think it's why we so often see people at Highland Games wearing the strangest mix of various periods, why we see so many modern Highland Dress articles worn with Renaissance clothing at Ren Faires, why we see these Civil War reenactors wearing 20th century Highland Dress items with their Civil War attire. I would hazard to guess that these same reenactors would never wear a non-Highland Dress 20th century article, such as tennis shoes or tie-dye t-shirt, with their Civil War dress.

[macwilkin]

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[BoldHighlander]

I felt sure ther were some people out there who would have an idea what i am after.i wear a kilt and all my highland gear when i reinact as a scottish highlander.i wear a plain uniform with stars,much like general lee when im leading my troups to victory against the evil oppressers.sometimes we all get a little carried away with all this.

I've been very ill since Friday, and missed this, so I'm sorry for the late reply.

I think that was really the problem early on. We weren't sure.

Please don't let the discussion that resulted keep you from participating here in the future.