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**Mithral** · 21st April 06, 10:16 PM

Hi all, I'm new to the boards, but I've been wearing kilts for a little over a year and a half now.

I have a black watch Sport-Kilt which I find very comfortable for casual wear, and a Feileadh-mor which I mainly wear for SCA events, but have started to wear on random days off.

My interests include video games, leatherworking, roleplaying, blacksmithing, woodworking and medieval artillery... among a myriad of other interests.

**Caradoc** · 21st April 06, 10:43 PM

Originally Posted by Mithral

Hi all, I'm new to the boards, but I've been wearing kilts for a little over a year and a half now.

I have a black watch Sport-Kilt which I find very comfortable for casual wear, and a Feileadh-mor which I mainly wear for SCA events, but have started to wear on random days off.

My interests include video games, leatherworking, roleplaying, blacksmithing, woodworking and medieval artillery... among a myriad of other interests.

Welcome.

If you don't mind my asking, where did you get that particular word? I've only seen "feileadh-mor" once - in a document telling me not to use that particular phrasing because it was a backformation from "philibeg," back to "feileadh-beg," and thence to "feileadh-mhor" to differentiate it from the "small kilt."

"Breacan feile," or "bhreacain feileadh," or even "belted plaid" are more likely.

**Riverkilt** · 21st April 06, 10:50 PM

Welcome,

Been trying to get my cousin kilted, he's down the road from you in Moravian Falls.

Ron

**Mithral** · 21st April 06, 11:09 PM

Originally Posted by Caradoc

Welcome.

If you don't mind my asking, where did you get that particular word? I've only seen "feileadh-mor" once - in a document telling me not to use that particular phrasing because it was a backformation from "philibeg," back to "feileadh-beg," and thence to "feileadh-mhor" to differentiate it from the "small kilt."

"Breacan feile," or "bhreacain feileadh," or even "belted plaid" are more likely.

I got it from the glossary of terms in my "Early Highland Dress" text by Matt Newsome.

Basically I'm a lazy SOB who didn't want to call it a "great-kilt" so I used the first term I saw that meant the same thing. I usually call it "the belted plaid" or the "great-kilt". Besides based on Newsome's research it's entirely likely that the philibeg evolved around the same time as the great kilt so *shrug*