Unusual Kilt

[Piobair]

Eh, I would guess that the Braveheart people were basically repurposing the belted plaid/philamor that has been around for a while. Rob Roy, which came out a few years prior, also toyed with the concept - although there are some odd scenes where Liam Neason is wearing just a philabeg.

[Allan Thomson]

Eh, I would guess that the Braveheart people were basically repurposing the belted plaid/philamor that has been around for a while. Rob Roy, which came out a few years prior, also toyed with the concept - although there are some odd scenes where Liam Neason is wearing just a philabeg.

Actually Rob Roy showed the historically accurate belted plaid. I just took it as illustrating that Rob Roy was a man of standing as he had the money to afford a tailored phillabeg and a seperate plaid. There's plenty of evidence that those of standing tended to favour alternating between Trews and a phillabeg with or without a seperate plaid whereas the'plebs' (bearing in mind every highlander accounts himself a gentleman) would have to make do with just a plaid belted by themselves.

Lets face it if you had the skills to tailor a jacket or trews you have the skills (or the means to procure those skills and the material) to pleat and stitch a phillabeg which definitely exiated in the early to mid 18th C. One only has to see the Culloden portrait (painted using captured Highlanders post 45/6) or look at the records of Highland regiments to know that the phillabeg was definitely around in the early part of the 18th C despite what some self appointed 'experts' may claim...