RE: Smell: not necessarily an insult; the fact is that in the "olden days", very few people bathed on a regular basis, even the gentry. Why else would you invent perfumes and powdered wigs?

I remember a quote from a soldier in the US Army during the Indian Wars that said something like: "It wasn't so bad, we all smelled the same."

At one point, it was considered unhealthy to bathe on a regular basis, because you washed away all of the protective layers (ie dirt) -- but these are the same folks who believed that malaria was caused by "noxious evening vapors". :mrgreen:

I'm sure Matt will weigh in on this discussion, but my bet would be that the average Highlander had only one kilt, given the state of the Highlands in Scotland.

Cheers,

Todd