Genuine kilties in the movies

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How about these for kilts in the media..?

No prizes for guessing which films they are from, as they are too well known, but I think they show good examples of when the Wardrobe Department has been given free rein when it comes to costume, and when the extras and bit-part players have worn their own clothes.

But, before we start slating musical fantasies for their wild ideas, and feel our sensibilites affronted, the costumes in Brigadoon appear to have been near faithful copies of the MacIan's 1840s water-colours representing the various clans. And a bit of artistic licence can be forgiven.

Razzle-dazzle aside for a moment, is Brigadoon really any worse than Outlander as a costume fantacy?

I am willing to bet the price of a pint that the kiltied characters from the other films are in their own clothes - certainly the Highland Games lot and the elderly gents in the 1945 black-and-white movie.

It's good to see what you might call natives in real native dress.

And it's also good to think that 'Wardrobe' had the wit to let seasoned kilties do their own thing, and so allow them to bring a sense of relaxed authenticity to the scenes.