Re: Kilt Question!

[EoganOg@aol.com]

Poster: EoganOg@aol.com

In a message dated 2/25/99 6:13:38 PM Eastern Standard Time,
alasdair.maciain@snet.net writes:

> I just plain cheated - Philippa sewed belt loops onto my breacan feile, one
>  per pleat.  I just feed the belt through the loops (making sure it goes
>  through *all* of them, buckle it, and then square things away.  The top of
>  the kilt covers the belt loops completely, so you can't tell they're there.

Again, although there is no evidence of this done in period, it was indeed
done for early feilidh-beags and quite possibly in the feilidh-mhors in the
later 1600s.  It did make the gathering of the material a whole lot easier!
Aye,
Eogan 
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