I've seen on here reference to kilts only coming about in the last few hundred years, and other mentions of kilt like things far earlier. I am left to wonder, is the kilt really just an end product far older? I almost want to log into my old college database and go study hunting, but...

I ask this because as I was doing laundry yesterday, I realized on our Egyptian wall carvings it shows the Pharaoh's wearing simple skirts. I know that would be contemporary to early greeco-roman culture. I know the Romans had robes, but their armor is a metallic skirt, which I'm sure has a fancy name to it, but I digress. Could early kilts be an attempt to replicate the armor of the invaders, not necessarily by seeing and mimicking, but from the stories that spread? Especially the box pleats, I would think, would behave in a similar way to the armored skirts. Of course, it has evolved traits of it's own, but I wonder about it's early forms. Might have to hit the museum on the way south if I ever get around to visiting my grandparents in SC.