I think there’s a bit of both. Tradition and survival we have the great kilt for traditional and survival with the walking kilt which opens up so much such as the utility kilt and now the “flavoured” utility kilt to make it more fashionable and accessible
sounds like they resurrected a lost past, and it may not be the original, but at least it's not completely lost. or I completely misunderstood what I just listened to.
I think the our modern lives are much more closely related to the victorians then they will ever be to a pre 1745 Highlander (unless theres an apocalypse). Therefore the victorian's brought the kilt and highland wear into the modern era and insured its survival into the future.
That Sobieski dude was definitely not a dumb Polak, little shifty maybe, not so dumb. Or if you prefer: Ten chłopak Sobieski nie był głupim Polkiem, chytry tak, głupi nie.
Not a whole lot about the Highlands was 'codified' period. A lot of it wild and isolated, and folks did as they wanted or could afford--or as Grandma wove it.
i would say more they blinged it up and victoriamised it which tbf every generation or era or epoch etc did the same i,e was the kilt in the viking era the same as came from galatia ? or the one from the braveheart time the same as during the first jackobite rebellion or the second and last ? do we wear the same kilt as the victorians or even our grandparents ( and when i say kilt i include the accoutriments and include how and when etc the garment is shown )
How much did riding in a coach vise walking impact the style? I must wear my greatkilt, all down to comfortably drive while wearing it, and that is far from practical.
+USAKiltsOfficial *Thanks for the historian perspective.* English steelsmith Thomas Rawlinson, who transferred to Glasgow after the War o' the Spanish Succession, saw that the _Feiladh mór_ left much to be desired in an industrial context, thus his taking a fraction of the woolen area to craft the first _Feiladh beag._ Hielan Garb had somewhat of a revival during the Regency (GBR). The re-enactment of Stirling Bridge in the Icon Pictures - Ladd Company feature (and Mel Gibson film) _Braveheart_ left much to be desired, as Producers failed to secure permits for a bridge reconstruction across the River Forth. The costumes were inaccurate, as well: No mail tunics, no plate helmets, and the plaids on the _Feiladh mór_ were too elaborate for the First Scots' War for Independence. (Producers, however, got their arms accurate, witness the correct construction and diameters of targes, infantry spears, and cavalry swords and lances.)
the gaels from galacia are one of the peoples that became the scottish people with picts and scotti and vikings and i do believe the galatian kilts were much shoter and not in a plaid or as elaborate in design the irish also wear a kilt and are descendend from gaels and thus galatia so not so muchn they had it first but more we kept wearing it and it evolved as we a people did
