
Fashion History Now #46: 21st Century Kilts, an interview with Howie Nicholsby
Dressed: The History of Fashion
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Highland Dress - It's All About the Artistic Level
There is a artisan level to Highland dress that goes back historically even pre Victorian period. Every component existed before the aristocratic purging of the practicality of killware and it becoming much more avant-garde fancy dress. Mel Gibson doing Braveheart didn't do any harm Rob Royley and Nissen even things like train spotting but put Scotland on the map and Scottish identity.
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