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Fashion History Now #46: 21st Century Kilts, an interview with Howie Nicholsby

Dressed: The History of Fashion

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Highland Dress Etiquette

Some people feel that the wearing of another clan's tartans or a family that you don't belong to some people interpret that as cultural appropriation. During the 19th century the wearing of the kilt became sort of codified in a way and I'm curious about what are some of the rules about wearing a kilt in a quote unquote traditional manner. As opposed to rules I would call it the etiquette. So a Highland dress etiquette anyone in the world can wear a kilt, there are plenty of generic tartans or public tartans like I have muted hunting shirt here which goes beautiful with my Star Wars t-shirt as it happens. Lord Lion the Queen now King's representative in

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