Although the kilt is most often worn on formal occasions and
at Highland games and sports events, it has also been adapted as an item of
fashionable informal male clothing in recent years, returning to its roots as
an everyday garment.
The kilt first appeared as the great kilt, the breacan or
belted plaid, during the 16th century, and is Gaelic in origin. The filleadh
mhòr or great kilt was a full-length garment whose upper half could be worn as
a cloak draped over the shoulder, or brought up over the head. The filleadh
bheag or philibeg or small kilt, also known as the walking kilt (similar to the
modern kilt) was invented by an English Quaker from Lancashire named Thomas
Rawlinson sometime in the 1720s for the use of the Highlanders that he and Iain
MacDonnell, chief of the MacDonnells of Inverness, employed in logging,
charcoal manufacture and iron smelting, for which the belted plaid was
"cumbrous and unwieldy".
Kilt is very strongly embedded in Scottish culture, Scottish
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