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Thread #123051   Message #2705291
Posted By: MGM·Lion
21-Aug-09 - 05:44 AM
Thread Name: BS: British National Dress?
Subject: RE: BS: British National Dress?
"Scotland" [kilts?]" - asks WAV. Kilts in the Highlands, tartan trews in the Lowlands — regional variations important, of course. & various kinds of bonnet for the Scots: Hieland bonnet with its ribbons, Tam o' Shanter with its bobble ...

Earlier the farmworker's smockfrock, tho only worn as work dress, was a sort of English national dress I suppose, tho only among agrarian labouring-class; but that disappeared completely in early C20.