I spotted at least one glitch. It cites the first known tailored kilt as 1692, In fact the proper date would be 1792, except that ISTR that the actual date of the kilt in the Scottish Tartans Musem is 1794. Matt?
That's correct. Probably just a typo in the article.
M
'92 vs '94, probably. But they specify that that date puts the tailored kilt before Rawlinson (whatever his role may have been.) I suspect that it's a matter of confusing seventeenth century and 1700s, with a couple of intermediaries before the author got the information. It does seem a pretty fair article, barring that one howler.
Hmmm... if the context was trying to disprove that Rawlinson invented the feilidh-beag, then they probably were referring to the arms of Skene of Skene which date to 1672. But this is not a tailored kilt, which would take another 100 years to come about. One of the supporting figures in these Arms is a Highlander in a feilidh-beag (supposedly), which is still an untailored garment.
I'm guessing that is what they really meant, and they are just confusing the untailored feilidh-beag with the tailored kilt. No one suggests Rawlinson invented the tailored kilt.
Originally Posted by M. A. C. Newsome
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