The kilt didn't appear in Ireland until the Victorian period, and then only among upper class nationalists; apparently for little other reason that it emphatically wasn't English. If a home-rule MP wanted to make a fashion statement in Parliament, it was more effective in the widely recognized kilt than the obscure but documented historical ethnic garment of the Irish; the leine; an ankle-length linen shirt with wildly exaggerated pointed sleeves that closely resembles a woman's shift. As Irish nationalists, to differentiate their kilts from Scottish ones, they adopted solid colors, particularly saffron, the traditional color of the Irish leine. Today Irish pipers often still wear the saffron kilt, and some male Irish dancers self-colored or tweed kilts. While many of the Irish county tartans are quite attractive, they are the modern invention of Scottish woolen mills.