The hand me downs applied to Saxon clothing as well, As i can remember being in them,
One of my books speaks of children wearing kilts in the hebridies to school, that book went till around the start of WW1. But the adult men were all in trousers. The Hebridies being extremely poor, and most families having a large amount of children not having handme downs would have been unusual.
Living the Hebridies and Inverness I never saw a kilt at all in the 1970s and 1980's and as Figheadair most boys would not be seen dead in them and I doubt many would today.
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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill
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