Quote Originally Posted by Sir Robert
Shay, Egyption, what on Earth are you talking about? Pharonic Egypt and it's culture and thus it's place as a fashon exporter fizzled out one and a half thousand years before the dates we are discussing.

Rigged, yes the Egyptions had a male skirt that obsolutely fits our definition of kilt but we know that the kilt today has it's origins in a wool blanket.
I was being facectious. I don't think the kilt as a pleated, unbifurcated garment is any more 'Celtic' than using stuff to make your hair stick up for battle- yes, it was a trait of Celtic warriors to do so at one point, but so have plenty of other cultures.

Pleated skirts (as Rigged pointed out more clearly) are found the world over. There's the fustanella and hakama around today for starters, but many ancient civilizations showed pleated MUGs on their statues of men and boys. The kilt is simply the most codified and yet varied of them all.

Kilts as a garment under that name are specific to Scotland, Ireland, Wales, etc, and as such I count them as Celtic garments until people sop asking my husband if he's from Scotland every time he wears one.