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 Originally Posted by Bugbear
* Raises an eyebrow *
You don't have a leine for reenacting, and you wear the belted plaid?
Anyway, Matt's article said thick linen was used for the leine in the Highlands, if I remember correctly.
I suppose the modern thinking on the belted plaid has changed because the belted plaid lead to the modern kilt, which we don't regard as being merely outerwear, because it isn't. We should be thinking of the belted plaid as coming from the previous style of leine and brat, where it would be more obvious that brat was only outerwear and could be 'safely' removed.
You are right, though, Nighthawk should have a leine to wear under his belted plaid. If he just wore a T-shirt or the like then removing the plaid would leave him in a state of undress, whereas a leine would not, quite apart from the matter of authenticity.
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