Anderson 1936 catalogue

[Jock Scot]

Well, we historians have to work with the sources we have. It would be irresponsible in my opinion to throw out the sources that do exist, and place our stock in theoretical sources.

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BTW these catalogues are of brick-and-mortar shops which anyone could walk into and see the things in person... no one had to order "blind".

It is quite true that historians have to work with the information that they have to hand, however, fortunate are they(historians) to have people around who have close to hand experience of the "actual" situation. Before long, even those will be gone and assumptions, theories and conclusions are in danger of becoming even more in-accurate.

Now, I quite accept that even "second hand" memories and conclusions are not always accurate either, but they are well worth listening to, even if those views rather inconveniently debunk the pet theories of the historians!

Whilst I was not around in the 1930's( I was born in 1940) I grew up with many that were around well before the '30's.So for what it is worth, most kilt attire was locally obtained and for most of the kilted locals around here, Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh might as well have been on the moon. I was born into a fairly well travelled family, but even they regarded kilt attire bought from "afar" was for "pocket Scotsmen" or for a "Balmoral Highlander" and viewed with a certain amount of disdain. All rather unfair for the kilted locals of Aberdeen of course and it was not them that these rather caustic comments were aimed at! Somehow though, I do admit that a couple of very nice dress sporrans from a very smart shop(H&I) in Edinburgh have arrived in our midst over the ages, so some one must have ventured father afield to do their shopping!

Nevertheless, it is probably very difficult to relate to this way of thinking in this day and age , but exist it did.