2 sentences with 'kilts'

Example sentences and phrases with the word kilts and other words derived from it.


« It is no coincidence that the fashion for kilts in Scotland, those now identified with clan identity, first emerged in the 1820s rather than earlier. »
« An iconic example is the Scottish kilt. The Scots had been wearing kilts since the 16th century, but there was no specific colour and pattern of tartan (a series of horizontal and vertical lines that, when crossed, form a square effect) for each family or clan. The British government eventually assigned tartans to a new class of soldiers recruited from Scotland: the Highland Regiments, whose wider identification of tartan and clan only emerged in the early decades of the 19th century. »

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