{"id":331,"date":"2017-02-11T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T20:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/11\/one-version-of-the-evolution-of-the-highlander-kiilt\/"},"modified":"2017-02-11T20:48:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T20:48:00","slug":"one-version-of-the-evolution-of-the-highlander-kiilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/one-version-of-the-evolution-of-the-highlander-kiilt.html","title":{"rendered":"One Version of the Evolution of the Highlander Kiilt"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nAgain, I have been reading Fashion Victims.  This time it was the chapter entitled
\n\u201cEntangled and Strangled: Caught in the Machine.  One of the reasons I return to this  reference  is that each
\nchapter has many, many examples of the perils of fashion.<\/div>\n
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\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\n           <\/div>\n
\n              Fashion Victims:The Dangers of Dress Past and Present, Alison Matthews David,                                        Bloomsbury, London , 2015<\/div>\n
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\nThe one I wish to share today is the story of the origin of
\nthe Scottish kilt.  According to the
\nauthor, in the 16th<\/sup> and 17th<\/sup> century Scottish clansmen
\nwore a garment called a \u201cbreacon\u201d, a length of plaid cloth which they wrapped
\naround their bodies as protection      
\nfrom the heather.  The breacon
\nwas worn belted around the waist and hung in long, loose skirt-like folds.  Scottish men of high society wore \u201ctrews\u201d,
\nbreeches with stockings.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nThe story, as reported, is that an English Quaker from
\nLancaster, Thomas Rawlinson leased a wooded parcel of land for the purpose of
\nsmelting iron ore.  He hired Highlanders
\nto cut the trees and man the furnaces. 
\nHe was concerned that the long plaid garments they wore was cumbersome
\nand potentially dangerous.  He hired a tailor
\nto create a short version of the skirt with sewn pleats.  Rawlinson, himself adopted the garment and
\nsoon the Highland clansmen followed wearing the \u201cfelie beg\u201d, the small kilt we
\nknow today.<\/div>\n
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\n<\/a><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n                                     Tartans, Belvedere Designbook, #34,  1987<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n  Author, A.M. David, states
\n\u201cThus the kilt was actually a product of the early Industrial Revolution,
\ndesigned by an English industrialist as a work uniform for his employees,
\nbringing the Highlander out of the heather and into the factory\u201d.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n

Again, this volume
\nemphasizes slavery to fashion of the day is often detrimental.    <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Again, I have been reading Fashion Victims.  This time it was the chapter entitled \u201cEntangled and Strangled: Caught in the Machine.  One of the reasons I return to this  reference  is that each chapter has many, many examples of the perils of fashion.                        …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}