Among articles ot-Western costume £h« two oldeßt are perhaps the Highland kilt and the stnoc.k-£rock of • jV.e west country English labourer. It Is not probable that either of them has altered much for a thousand years. The smock-frock was the peasant dress in early Saxon times, and the kilt would seem to be a development of the kirile or fringed girdle, which w»s,-.probably
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 31, Issue 9220, 15 June 1900, Page 3
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63Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 31, Issue 9220, 15 June 1900, Page 3
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