The Tiny Italian Village which is almost entirely Scottish

[cessna152towser]

Discuss.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a6909171.html

[Tarheel]

I wish I had been able to follow the reporter's words.

The article states that 40+ women still wear kilts (the men not so much). There was no emphasis on tartans that I could observe. I wonder If the style of skirt (pleated the way the women were shown wearing) was considered kilt like.
The gentleman holding the child had (what I believe to be) a woman's kilt. My clues are the kilt pin over his left leg where the front apron lapped. I wonder if the tartan was one of the three family names mentioned as original inhabitants? Could any of our better informed members please pipe in and answer my question.

I did enjoy the museum with the textile and iron works. I can see why the area was inhabited and continues to be by the town founders and their families.

[Wareyin]

I wish I had been able to follow the reporter's words.

The article states that 40+ women still wear kilts (the men not so much). There was no emphasis on tartans that I could observe. I wonder If the style of skirt (pleated the way the women were shown wearing) was considered kilt like.
The gentleman holding the child had (what I believe to be) a woman's kilt. My clues are the kilt pin over his left leg where the front apron lapped. I wonder if the tartan was one of the three family names mentioned as original inhabitants? Could any of our better informed members please pipe in and answer my question.

I did enjoy the museum with the textile and iron works. I can see why the area was inhabited and continues to be by the town founders and their families.

It seemed to me that the gentleman holding the child had his kilt on sideways. The apron was off to one side, and there was pleating on the front.

[Tarheel]

I see now that the kilt is twisted and opens on the right leg. Thanks Wareyin for the heads up there. I don't see the pleats in the front, but the camera scans fast. I'm curious about the sporran (or are there two).

[Dale Seago]

The battle leading to the Scottish mercenaries settling there occurred before even the feileadh mor, from which the kilt was later developed, had come into widespread use in Scotland. I was struck by one line in particular: "Residents also have a strange, incomprehensible dialect. . .". Gaelic roots?