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CELTIC DRESS.
and in wet weather was raised over the head. At
night, the whole could be cast loose and worn as a
blanket, and the wearer was often buried in his plaid.
This striped blanket, then, ought to be a very ancient
form of dress, and the early dress of most nations is
something like a kilt. The Greeks and Eomans, for
Pipers and Peasant Boy. Sketched at Inverness and on the west coast.
Modem Highland Dress, with the plaid and kilt as separate garments.
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example, wore kilts, and their great men wore a broader
web of cloth variously wrapped about their bodies, as
primitive people elsewhere in the world still do. The
dress ought to be old, and it is old. The modern alter-
ation is but an improved method of sewing the folds
of one half to a band, and wearing the rest of the
plaid over the shoulder, and in so far, but in no other
sense, the dress is modern.