Kilt history

[Duthill]

[quote=jafapete;403497"...the invention of the modern kilt sometime after about 1727 by a Quaker industrialist named Thomas Rawlinson and its quick adoption in many parts of the Highland and Northern Lowlands by about 1768."
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Just how does it come about , that the use of the 'modern kilt ' catches on so well during up to the time 1768 ,
when the wearing of it , and the tartan cloth that it is made from , are banned from 1747 until 1783 ?

And that the english 'foundry owner' who is credited with the 'invention' was a bricklayer ?

The ' little kilt ' has been around longer than that piece of cultural theft .


"" History Of The Great Kilt
The Great Kilt is known in Gaelic as the feileadh beag (little wrap) to distinguish it from the feileadh mór (big wrap), the belted plaid. There is some debate about exactly when the kilt was first worn and who created it. There has been much written about a 1725 Englishman named Thomas Rawlinson, owner of an iron works in Glengarie and Lochaber, as being the 'abbreviator of the feileadh mór to the feileadh beag. And many Englishmen have been proud to boast that it was Rawlinson who invented the modern kilt. But not so fast. The Armorial Bearings of the Chief of the Skenes (1692) clearly shows a man wearing a feileadh beag. The story of Rawlinson has since been disproven by scholars to the great delight of Highlanders ""

White Stag & Swan Renaissance Website - History Of The Great Kilt

"" Very little is easily found about Thomas Rawlinson himself, even his vital dates (birth and death). He is described in nearly all accounts as being an Englishman and a Quaker who went to the Highlands in the aftermath of the suppression of the 1715 Jacobite uprising in order to establish an iron works. In a listing of "Baptisms at the Church of St. Laurence in the Parish of Chorley in the County of Lancashire, 1709-1768": [1], a Thomas Rawlinson, likely the subject of this article, is listed as the father of 3 infants baptized there between the years 1718 and 1724. His occupation is listed as "bricklayer". ""

Thomas Rawlinson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Research is a marvelous thing

[aNonnyMoose]

Duthil, this one's just another in a lengthy list of buffoons touting long-discredited "history" to attempt to prove a non-existent point.

There is little or no evidence to back up the Rawlinson myth. Perhaps he's the forebear of the gentleman described in the Bonzo Dog Doodah Band's "Rawlinson's End". His sponsor sounds more like Scrote, described as "a wrinkled retainer".



Commonly known on another site as a bawbag...

[Duthill]

aNonnyMoose ,
I know that full well .
I was trying to point out to the idiot fringe how easy it is to Think .