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18TH CENTURY LIVING HISTORY IN AUSTRALIA.

Thursday, 9 April 2015

The Real Deal on Tartan, Kilts, and Outlander Costumes


… the habite of the Highland men … is stockings (which they call short hose) made of a warm stuff of divers colours, which they call tartane … A jerkin of the same stuff that their hose is made of; their garters being bands of hay or straw, with a plaid about their shoulders, which is a mantle of divers colours, much finer and lighter stuff than their hose, with blue flat caps on their heads.

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