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The Utilikilts Company is an American contemporary or "utility" kilt company, was founded by Steven Villegas in April 2000. Villegas created his first kilt in the late '90s as an alternative to pants, intended to offer freedom of movement, while working on his motorcycle. [ 1 ]
One of the earliest depictions of the kilt is this German print showing Highlanders around 1630. A kilt (Scottish Gaelic: fèileadh [ˈfeːləɣ]) [1] is a garment resembling a wrap-around knee-length skirt, made of twill-woven worsted wool with heavy pleats at the sides and back and traditionally a tartan pattern.
Tartans originated in woven wool, but are now made in other materials. Tartan is particularly associated with Scotland, and Scottish kilts typically have tartan patterns. The earliest surviving samples of tartan-style cloth are around 3,000 years old and were discovered in Xinjiang, China.
The wearing of skirts, kilts, or similar garments on an everyday basis by men in Western cultures is an extremely small minority. [citation needed] One manufacturer of contemporary kilt styles claims to sell over 12,000 such garments annually, [47] resulting in over $2 million annually worth of sales, and has appeared at a major fashion show. [48]
In the modern era, Scottish Highland dress can be worn casually, or worn as formal wear to white tie and black tie occasions, especially at ceilidhs and weddings. Just as the black tie dress code has increased in use in England for formal events which historically may have called for white tie, so too is the black tie version of Highland dress increasingly common.
Cornwall – Sou'wester hat, fisherman's smock, gansey, bal-maiden clothing, Cornish kilts and tartans; London – Pearly kings and queens; Northern Ireland – Similar to the rest of Ireland; Scotland – Highland dress: Kilt or trews, tam o'shanter or Balmoral bonnet, doublet, Aboyne dress, and brogues or ghillies. Scottish Lowlands – Maud ...