110 year old advice that still holds good...

[kilted2000]

Is there a way to make the article clearer? I would love to read it but the text is very hard to read.

[Troglodyte]

Is there a way to make the article clearer? I would love to read it but the text is very hard to read.

There are no doubt technical reasons, but when images are unloaded, they seem to loose quality and clarity. This article is another such victim...

However, the essence of the article is that Highland dress as it is now worn is hateful to those obliged to wear it (ie, soldiers), and the civilian version is little better.

It suggests reducing the amount of material in the kilt, reintroduce long hose for barrack duties, and issue decent leather sporrans instead of the awful hairy things now worn.

Also, it tells us that certain leading figures - Lord Lovat, Lord Seafield, The Macintosh, and Lochiel - got their heads together at the Inverness Kilt Society (no doubt the fore-runner of this forum) to draw up the ...rules for the correct wearing of Highland costume.

So, you see lads, there are 'rules'.

And these include: the bottom of the kilt is to touch the centre of the kneecap... The hose are to be worn one inch higher than the centre of the calf. And that there should be about the breadth of a hand bewteen the two.

Got that..?

Good.

Now let's see how many meet the approved standard, now we've had more than 100 years to practice.