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Trews (or truis, Scottish Gaelic: triubhas) are men's clothing for the legs and lower abdomen, a traditional form of tartan trousers from Scottish Highland dress. Trews could be trimmed with leather, usually buckskin , especially on the inner leg to prevent wear from riding on a horse.
Originating in the Scottish Highland dress for men, it is first recorded in the 16th century as the great kilt, a full-length garment whose upper half could be worn as a cloak. The small kilt or modern kilt emerged in the 18th century, and is essentially the bottom half of the great kilt.
The léine was worn throughout Gaelic culture, including in western Scotland, up until the late 16th century. In Ireland, traditional Gaelic dress, including the léine, was banned by the Dublin Castle administration. Another garment, known as an inar, was a jacket, pleated at either beneath the breast, or at the waist, with split sleeves.
Highland chieftain Lord Mungo Murray wearing belted plaid, around 1680. The history of the modern kilt stretches back to at least the end of the 16th century. The kilt first appeared as the belted plaid or great kilt, a full-length garment whose upper half could be worn as a cloak draped over the shoulder, or brought up over the head as a hood.
The word plaide in Gaelic roughly means blanket, and that was the original term for the garment.The belted plaid has been and is often referred to by a variety of different terms, including fèileadh-mòr, breacan an fhèilidh; and great kilt; [a] however, the garment was not known by the name great kilt during the years when it was in common use.
Historically, weaponry formed a common accessory of men's Highland dress, such as the mattucashlass and the dirk. However, due to the UK's knife laws, small sgian-dubhs and sword shape kilt pins are more commonly seen today. [3] For men's and women's shoes, dance ghillies are thin, foldable turnshoes, now used mostly for indoor wear and ...
Bagpiper in Highland dress with sporran indicated A horsehair sporran. The sporran (/ ˈ s p ɒr ə n /; Scottish Gaelic for 'purse'), a traditional part of male Scottish Highland dress, is a pouch that functions as a pocket for the kilt. Made of leather or fur, the
Gaelic clothing does not appear to have been influenced by outside styles. Women invariably grew their hair long and, as in other European cultures, this custom was also common among the men. [ 49 ] [ 51 ] [ 52 ] It is said that the Gaelic Irish took great pride in their long hair —for example, a person could be forced to pay the heavy fine ...