Quote Originally Posted by Jock Scot View Post
Lastly we come back to the old chestnut, did the common Highlander wear the kilt and a sporran in the first place. Well some(a very few) might have done and some might have had a goat hair sporran but neither would have looked anything like the attire portrayed in those fanciful pictures. The common highlander of yesteryear(the majority of the highland population) who were not even on the bottom rung of the social ladder------sheep were more important, far more important, than humans----- wore whatever he could get his hands on and rags were the result and I am yet to be convinced that these poor souls ever wore the kilt or sporrans as a matter of course, if ever.
Jock,

Blanket statements such as this really need to be put into some kind of historical context. Is your claim that the "common Highlander" never wore the kilt as a matter of course meant to apply to the 1840s? Or to the 1760s? Or to the 1640s? Or to history in general?

I would say, from an historical standpoint, there were definitely times in the Highlands when kilt wearing was more or less the norm. So for the purpose of this type of discussion, we need to more clearly define what we mean by "yesteryear."