
Fashion History Now #46: 21st Century Kilts, an interview with Howie Nicholsby
Dressed: The History of Fashion
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Scottish Tie
Most people accept that say tartan was mostly invented around 1822 King George IV visiting Scotland Sir Walter Scott going a bit wild again all the clan chiefs in the Tuesdays tartans and inner stories of a Polish brothers who made up a lot of the tartan history. For me if you're not a mckenzie or have a connection to mckenzie there are so many other options in the kilt world to not just wait a mckenzie. I think full circle to what tartan was meant to be as an identifier but is cultural appropriation kind of being connected now to waiting someone else's tartan because you know they are over a couple hundred years old. Some people do
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