The small kilt story

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The small kilt story

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1. The kilt, or philabeg to use its older Gaelic name, that has now become the ( A A S R T D D N ) dress
2. for all 'Highlanders', has its origin in an older ( G M N A R E T ) called the belted plaid
3. and has long been the most recognisable ( L U A L R U T C ) tradition of the Highland Scots
4. and have, in fact, been in ( E D E O V D P L E ) the nineteenth century, not by Scottish, Highlanders but by the Nobles of England and Scotland
5. There is much evidence that many of the more ( G A S O C N E E L R B I ) tartans seen today are in fact
6. creations of Scottish and English ( T S A I R O L ) during the reign of Queen Victoria.
7. . Despite this, it has generally been accepted that the basic concepts of the tartan and the ( A I G W E N R ) of the kilt
8. do indeed have their origin in the history of early Scottish and Irish clans, or ( L E I A I F S M ) .
9. After 1688, and the fall of the Stuart clan, the English government felt the need to take a more active ( E T I T S R N E ) in the Highland affairs.
10. In 1707, the Act of Union took place, and succeeded in temporarily uniting the ( I L T L A O C P I ) factions
11. and clans that were universally opposed to the Act. The tartan came into it's own as a ( O S L Y M B ) of active nationalism.
12. During the eighteen hundreds, the wearing of the belted plaid began to be ( E X E C H D G A N ) for that of the kilt.
13. The belted plaid, being a one-piece six-foot tall cloth, belted about the waist with the remainder being worn up about the ( D H U R L S E O ) ,
14. was proving to be somewhat inconvenient to wear. A 'new', little kilt ( S D I G E N ) became popular.
15. The plaid now became more of a ( I A S O N F H ) experiment for the elite of English society

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