苏格兰服装英语简介
Kilts and Highland Dress The kilt is no longer the ordinary dress of the Highlander.However,up north around Inverness you'll find some old timers still wearing it.Otherwise the wearing of traditional dress tends to be confined to occasions of national ceremony,international sports matches,weddings etc,Highland Games or to Edinburgh guides desparartely hoping for a bigger tip.The kilt in its present form is known as the philibeg,from the Gaelic feileadh beag,and is a separate garment,made like a woman's skirt with the pleats sewn and pressed in.The older kilt (used until the C18) was called the feileadh mor,and was not a separate garment but a length of cloth (15 feet long) slung over the shoulder and gathered around the waist by a belt.This garment was popularly called a plaide,Gaelic for blanket,which is where our word plaid comes from.later,the kilt became the separate skirt-like garment familiar today.The tartan trousers you sometimes see are known as trews.The other elements of traditional Scottish highland dress are the sporran (a pouch made of badger's skin),the bonnet with eagle's feathers mentioned above and the dirk or dagger.It is an eternal mystery never to be solved what the Scotsman wears underneath his kilt.