Quite healthy
Limited range of tartans unless you pay the Mill prices though
Linen sark no problem, waistcoat or jacket would be better tailored to fit.
Sporran; I can send you a pattern for one true to period, or good makers contacts.
How 'rustic' do you think you'd like shoes and hose ?
cheers,
M
I don't want to hijack shaggystu's post so PM sent
However this from another 'kilt' related thread, may entertain...
In a new book 'The Invention of Scotland' the author describes the "The fantasy of Scotland's history", the books contents will no doubt stir up some debate, however it does feature some entertaining quotes from the parliamentary debates concerning the 'banning' of the kilt
From the Times...
"The advocates of the ban argued that the Highland dress distinguished the Highlanders from the rest of British subjects and bound them together in a narrow introverted community: that the plaid, in particular, encouraged their idle way of life, “lying about upon the heath in the daytime instead of following some lawful employment”; that, being “composed of such colours as altogether in the mass so nearly resemble the heath on which they lie, that it is hardly to be distinguished from it until one is so near them as to be within their power”, it facilitated their robberies and depredations; that it made them, “as they carry continually their tents about them”, ready to join a rebellion at a moment's notice."
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article3953025.ece
