Wilton, Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton: The Book of costume or, Annals of fashion: from the earliest period to the present time (London: Henry Colburn, Publisher, 1847)

THE TOILETTE IN SCOTLAND.

CHAPTER XIII.


all the early annals of the
Scotch, it is stated that they
were a rude and hardy race
of men; that they loved war ;
and were for the most part
nearly destitute of clothing.
Afterwards we find that they
adopted the skins of heasts.
Pitscottie,in his “Chronicles
of Scotland,” speaking of the
ancient style of dress, says :
“ Thev be cloathed with ane

mantle, with ane shirt,

fachioned after the Irish

manner, going bare-legged to the knie.”
The author of a work on Scotland, published in 1603,
writes thus : “ They (the Highlanders) delight much