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  2. Highland dress - Wikipedia

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    Highlanders wearing kilts, plaids, bonnets, and an early example of trews; 1631 German engraving. The Highland Wedding, David Allan (1780) In 1618, a poet from London, John Taylor, described the costume of Scottish aristocrats, lairds, and their followers and servants, dressed for hunting at Braemar. In August and September, all classes dressed ...

  3. Aboyne dress - Wikipedia

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    Another young Highland dancer wearing Highland Dress. 'Aboyne dress' is the name given to the prescribed attire for female dancers in the Scottish national dances, such as the Flora MacDonald's fancy, the Scottish lilt, and others. Male dancers wear the kilt for these dances, the kilt being a predominantly male garment. There are two versions ...

  4. History of the kilt - Wikipedia

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    Highland soldier in 1744, an early picture of great kilt, with the plaid being used to protect the musket lock from rain and wind.. The belted plaid (breacan an fhéilidh) or great plaid (feileadh mòr), also known as the great kilt, is likely to have evolved over the course of the 16th century from the earlier "brat" or woollen cloak (also known as a plaid) which was worn over a tunic (the ...

  5. Kilt - Wikipedia

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    Casual use of kilts dressed down with lace-up boots or moccasins, and with T-shirts or golf shirts, is becoming increasingly familiar at Highland games. The kilt is associated with a sense of Scottish national pride and will often be seen being worn, along with a football top, when members of the Tartan Army are watching a football or rugby match

  6. Folk costume - Wikipedia

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    Scotland – Highland dress: Kilt or trews, tam o'shanter or Balmoral bonnet, doublet, Aboyne dress, and brogues or ghillies. Scottish Lowlands – Maud, blue bonnet; Wales - The Welsh traditional dress is often worn by women on Saint David's Day or by folk dancers, such as at the Eisteddfod. It is believed to have historically been worn ...

  7. Arisaid - Wikipedia

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    An arisaid [1] [2] [3] (Scottish Gaelic: earasaid [4] or arasaid [4]) is a draped garment historically worn in Scotland in the 17th and 18th century (and probably earlier) as part of traditional female Highland dress. It was worn as a dress – a long, feminine version of the masculine belted plaid – or as an unbelted wrap.