Quote Originally Posted by MacMillan of Rathdown View Post
Jane Austen was/is very much a fixture of Regency England. As such it would have been neigh on impossible that a gentleman in England during that time would have worn a kilt. Proper attire for the period would be that of the upper-middle class and upper-class English gentleman.

Had you bought your wife a membership in the Sir Walter Scott Society of North America instead, you could have probably justified another kilt...
Her interest is in English history (masters in Tudor reign) and English Lit. While she would of course know and probably read Sir Walter Scott and Robert Burns I've never heard her dicuss either much.

BTW http://eswsc.com/ . No North American one yet.

Who said I was a gentleman I was thinking that there were Scots around back than and while it may have been unlikely for an English gentleman to have been in a kilt I was figuring a Scottish one would have not had an issue of wearing one. Especially if, as mentioned by OC Richard, an officer.

I will look into English garb of the era but that is another forum...

Jim