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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.
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恩。。。好象是有点偏题了，再补充一点。以前口语课我们还做过Scotland专题的，可惜资料都没存下来。。。
The tartan kilt has long been the most recognisable cultural tradition of the Highland Scots. It has now become the standard dress for all "Highlanders", has its origin in an older garment called the belted plaid. The Gaelic word for tartan is breacan, meaning partially colored or speckled, and every tartan today features a multicolored arrangement of stripes and checks. These patterns are used to identify the clan, family, or regiment with which the wearer is associated.

Kilts have become normal wear for formal occasions, for example being hired for weddings in much the same way as top hat and tails are in England or tuxedos in America, and the kilt is being worn by anyone regardless of nationality or descent. Although a white tie style exists, the more common style of formal Highland regalia is seen in Black tie.

Kilts have increasingly become more common around the world for casual wear. It's not uncommon at all to see kilts making an appearance at Irish pubs, and it is becoming somewhat less rare to see them in the workplace. Casual use of the kilt can be dressed down with black boots, white socks rolled down to the top of the boot, perhaps with a black tee shirt. Or it can be a little more dressed up with woolen kilt hose, a button up shirt, sweater, and perhaps even a sport jacket. The small ornamental Sgian Dubh dagger may be omitted.

The modern tailored kilt is box-pleated or knife-pleated, with the pleats sewn in and the lower edges reaching not lower than the centre of the knee-cap. Nowadays a lighter weight of cloth tends to be used. The kilt is traditionally for men only, although in the modern era, women have also taken up the kilt as well as dresses patterned after kilts, and women pipers frequently wear kilts. Kilten skirts for girls are also worn.

As with any other form of dress, the kilt is subject to the vagaries of fashion. Since the 1980s, kilts have appeared in such materials as leather, denim, polyviscose, and acrylic. Solid colors have also been used in place of tartan, as well as camoflage patterns. While these garments may be disliked by traditionalists, they provide evidence that the kilt still has a place in the modern fashion world and continues to evolve. (Saffron coloured kilts favoured by many Irishmen are solid colour and traditional.)

Kilts have also made an appearance in Wales and Cornwall for special occasions. In these two Celtic regions the kilt is closely linked to the Celtic revival movements of the 19th and 20th century. The English county of Northumberland also possesses a tartan, and some Northumbrians, most notably Northumbrian pipers, wear kilts.
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The naked truth about what Scotsmen wear under their kilts has been revealed -- absolutely nothing.

Braving the chilly Scottish weather, seven out of 10 men follow tradition and go naked beneath the country''s national dress, according to a survey.

Highland tradition dictates men should wear nothing beneath their pleated skirts, in accordance with the punning saying: "Nothing is worn beneath the kilt -- it''s all in perfect working order."

For those not brave enough to "go commando", the survey found boxer shorts with a tartan design were the second most popular choice.

Scotsmen have worn kilts for hundreds of years, shrugging off jibes from south of the border.

Kilt makers have moved with the times, recently unveiling a design with a pocket for a mobile phone.

苏格兰男人穿呢格短裙的习俗。那么，裙子下还穿了什么？答案是：什么也没有。

据一项调查显示，尽管苏格兰的冬天寒风刺骨，仍有70%的男人“真空”穿着传统的呢短裙。据说，当地的习俗一惯就是如此。所以有一句俗语是：“呢裙下没穿什么——一切照常。”

这项调查显示，那些担心走光的人则比较喜欢选择呢格子布料做成的拳师型短裤。

在苏格兰，男人穿呢格短裙的习俗已延袭了几百年。呢裙的款式也在不断改进，最新推出的款式还特别设计了一个装移动电话的口袋。