What happend the the second half??

**Rangingscot** · 13th March 17, 01:11 PM

Hi everyone!!! been a little while!
I was watching Rob Roy the other day and noticed that they could take the top half of there kilts, but most of the time wore them on like you would with a great kilt as a cloak, I know that eventually the second half turned into the fly plaid but was it always like that? I'm sure not everyone did use the second half as just a fly plaid, blanket maybe? a cloak? what do you all think?
thanks!

**styphonthal** · 13th March 17, 02:49 PM

Didn't rob roy wear a great kilt? You could take the end, throw it over the shoulder, wrap it around your waist again, wear it down the back, or wear it like a kilt.

**Rangingscot** · 13th March 17, 02:51 PM

I thought he did till the end sword fight when it looked like he took off the upper half and wore just a small kilt.
I could be wrong and just mistaken what I saw.

**Steve Ashton** · 13th March 17, 02:51 PM

Please do not use a Hollywood movie for historical documentation.

**Rangingscot** · 13th March 17, 03:50 PM

I know, and was not necessarily, but I was curios if that was done during that time. and what happened to the top half of the great kilt when it was cut down and turned into the walking kilt. I know that eventually it was the fly plaid but was it so right away?

**Steve Ashton** · 13th March 17, 04:20 PM

second kilt.

**figheadair** · 13th March 17, 04:26 PM

Originally Posted by Rangingscot

I know, and was not necessarily, but I was curios if that was done during that time. and what happened to the top half of the great kilt when it was cut down and turned into the walking kilt. I know that eventually it was the fly plaid but was it so right away?

You are in danger of over thinking history. The kilt is not a cut down feileadh mor, it's an unjoined one and so there was not a spare piece of cloth hanging around the one needed to do something with. The use of a separate small plaid (what I know as a shoulder plaid but which I've seen described in the US a a Laird's plaid) should not be confleted with a fly plaid which was an early-mid 19th century invention. Where a plaid was worn with a kilt (and possibly with a feileadh beag too) it would have been where/when there was a requirement to have a cloak to keep warn and/or dry.