How many kilts would a Scot have had.

[davedove]

As to smell, I think there is more than BO that could cause a smell that the English would notice. Could it be that wool spun in a croft by a different method that the English would retain the natural smell from the sheep. Lanolin is smelly. Maybe substances used to dye the wool could have distinctive and not necessarily offensive smells. I doubt any Scot could smell worse than an English person, peasant or lord. What could smell more like BO than Henry VIII or the Marquis of Bournemouth on a hot summer day? BO can only produce so much of a stench. So, either there was a smell from a different source or the English were just being anti-Scot bigots.

A different diet can cause noticible differences in BO. Although I don't see the Scottish diet being that much different from the English. It was probably mostly bigotry.

[Mattg]

This is very interesting....I would think that a man of those days would not be too worried about having a wide selection of clothing

[pdcorlis]

This is very interesting....I would think that a man of those days would not be too worried about having a wide selection of clothing

Agreed - probably more interested in having a warm dry place to sleep and enough food to keep his family alive.