Panache vs. The Great Kilt!

[Alan H]

Um....nobody REALLY knows how Scots "back then" wore a great kilt. I mean there aren't instructions written down on how to do it, from 1600. If you can figure out a way to get the thing on that wraps the stuff around you, with some folds in the back and so on, I figure you're good to go.

Look at it this way... Shakespeare lived from 1564 - 1616. MacBeth was supposedly written around 1605. Seeing as the first references to anything kilt-like aren't more than a decade older than that, seeing as the first illustration of anything kilt-like (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...hus,_1631.jpeg) dates from fifteen years after Shakespeare died...seeing as that illustration shows tartan fabric worn a number of different ways, and different lengths and actually to my eye seems to show a mercenary in tartan breeches.....and seeing as Shakespeare probably didn't know any of this, anyway.... and seeing as that's a modern tartan you've got on, not an ancient one... and seeing as nobody REALLY KNOWS (as is pointed out to us, often, in this forum).

...I'd say to just wrap it around you in whatever manner seems good, and GO. I think you look good.

AND BESIDES....if we're going to raise a fuss over the Great Kilt and the precise manner in which it is worn, how about those shoes, eh? 'taint no such historical thing as those shoes, though they look good. In the 1600's most Highland Scots either went barefoot or wore simple turnshoes. If you had the money, you got latchet shoes.

http://www.freewebs.com/spun_measure...ows/shoes.html

There aren't really anything quite like the usual "ghillies" that we wear at Faire in the historical record for the 14th - 16th centuries, though apparently there are some things from earlier than that.

Anyway, like what's the point of fussing? It's a halloween costume and you look great. Go have fun.