Quote Originally Posted by OC Richard View Post
Well we can't get into the minds of people in the past, but I don't think that such a thing would never occur to anyone then.

The thing of taking kilting fabric and cutting it and hemming it and making garter flashes and bagpipe drone ribbons and bonnets etc is quite recent. In the old days each thing had its own dedicated sort of material. Bonnets were knit and garter ribbons and drone ribbons were made of ribbon woven to the correct widths.

But you never know!

The spats look like the usual grey stuff to me.
You'd know better than I, was just noticing the pattern of the material and it looked a match.