THE KILT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3006, 1 October 1908, Page 4

THE KILT.

"T.P.'s Weekly" has an interesting discussion on the kilt. It is poirite.i out that the general belief south of the Border that the kilt is the national dress of Scotland is erroneous. The kilt is entirely a Highland article of dress. It has never bean used in the Lowlands, and a Lowlander of to day feels it as foreign tojijs associations as to his limbs. We are also told that even in the Highlands the kilt is almost extinc*. It was rigorously suppressed by Act of Parliament after the rising of 1745,-ahd although the embargo was taken off forty years later, it was never resumed by any .considerable proportion of the people. The kill ai - .ve know it is a comparatively modern garment. It used to be part of the plaid. "T.P.'s" ver sion of the evolution of the separate petticoat is that about 1720 some Highlanders employed in ironworks found it an inconvenience not to be abl-stoliy aside the mantle part, and their English .superintendent suggested that the garment should be divided. Divided it was, and the idea found favour, until the kilt was generally worn as a separI nto piecj of dress.