Quote Originally Posted by kiltiejimbob View Post
Hmmmm, I wonder if the kilt was a Celtic garment found wherever Celts were found but died out in all but the Scottish Highlands hence making it seems as though it were only a Highland garment. Seems to me I have heard of kilts being found in Spain and France. Certainly bagpipes are found and played in Spain to this day.

KJB
Actually, the true pan-Celtic garment was - dare I say it?! - trousers! The bare-legged, tunic-wearing Greeks and Romans mocked the Keltoi for their "barbaric" practice of trouser wearing. Roman soldiers serving later on the empire's northern frontiers adopted trousers as sensible cold-weather garments.
No, there's no getting around the fact that the kilt evolved in one small corner of Celtdom - the Scottish Highlands, due to the unique terrain and climate factors there....