Quote Originally Posted by Friday View Post
I wish I could find the on-line article that said that a wrap like garment was on of the most used garments until horses became the frequent mode of transportation.
That sounds a very plausible argument. What more simple way could there be to keep warm than wrap some cloth or an animal skin around you. Especially if you weren't too good with a needle and thread! Following on from that, if the Irish were wearing a slightly tailored garment, sewn together and with sleeves while their Scottish cousins were still running around in a bit of (tartan?) cloth crudely wrapped around them it does give the impression of a more civilised society in Ireland at the time. "Clothes maketh the man" as the saying goes. Perhaps the reason why the Irish did not feel the need to emulate what they may have regarded as a more primitive form of dress?