Pictures of English Scottish men wearing kilt Why

The Scottish tartan kilt, English kilt, is a short skirt from the waist to the knee, made of tweed, with large continuous squares in the cloth.

The origin of the kilt has been debated between the English and the Scots. The English version is that an Englishman named Tom Rawlinson was the first to advocate the wearing of the kilt. in 1715, when the British government began to allow people in both England and Scotland to trade with each other, Tom Rawlinson traveled north to strike gold and opened a charcoal-painting factory in the north of Scotland.

His workers originally wore an untailored garment, about 5 meters long, wrapped around the body, with a sash tied at the waist, the part above the waist making pleats with pins at the shoulders, and the part below the waist resembling a kilt. This garment because the shawl and kilt connected to a piece, it is not convenient for workers to cut trees, Tom Rawlinson will propose to the tailor to cut the original garment in two, the kilt was born.

But the Scots believe that as early as 1692, the locals wore by two pieces of broad cloth sewn together, wrapped around the waist of the kilt. There are even historical records that show that the Scottish army adopted the kilt as its uniform as early as 1624.

The struggle to wear the kilt lasted more than 30 years

Scots regarded the kilt as "formal wear" and wore it at weddings and other more formal occasions. Scotland's army also uses the kilt as a uniform.

In the view of the Scots, the kilt is not only their favorite national costume, but also a symbol of the Scottish national culture. 1707, Scotland and England after the merger, the kilt as a national costume was retained, the Scots wear this skirt, indicating their resistance to the rule of the English and the strong desire for national independence.

In 1745, the British Hanoverian dynasty suppressed the armed uprising of the Scots, under the British history of the famous "ban on the skirt", forbidding the Scots to wear skirts, violators will be sentenced to imprisonment or banishment. The Scots fought for more than 30 years and forced the Hanoverian dynasty to lift the ban in 1782.

The plaid represents different families

The kilt, the most obvious symbol, is the plaid on the skirt. It is said that the Scottish Plaid Register Association in the United Kingdom records hundreds of different plaid patterns, some named after surnames, representing different Scottish clans. Black and grey plaids are known as 'government plaids', but there are also plaids that were customized especially for royalty, and plaids worn by aristocrats are known as 'nobleman's plaids'. In the 17th and 18th centuries, when wars were fought between the tribes of the Scottish Highlands, men on the battlefield were identified by the tartan they wore.

In the past, these squares could not be used indiscriminately. But over time, there have been more and more designs of chequered squares, and it is now estimated that there are no less than a thousand of them

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