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Re: Highland Games Attire *LINK*
Posted By: Charles Savoie (cpe-76-185-215-92.tx.res.rr.com)
In Response To: Re: Highland Games Attire (Daniel McDermott)
Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2008, @ 11:24 p.m.
Let no one forget bagpipes were invented in Greece and brought to "Caledonia" by the Romans.
Then there's history. The Mongols introduced the horse into warfare. Armies all over Eastern then Western Europe had to have mounted troops, because men on foot could not compete. The trouser was the horseback riding garment. Why is fairly obvious. The horse "divided" the legs.
Now that the reason we started wearing trousers is largely gone, we are to be told that we wear them because "our chromosomes determine it."
Nonsense. Then there's the matter of short hair. Military regulations across medeival Europe mandated short hair BECAUSE head lice became a problem. Distraction could not be afforded in combat. Lice were not as difficult to be rid of with short hair.
The Scots have never been the only men outside of trousers. They certainly lack the seniority of the ancient Greeks and Romans.
Let us all keep in mind God---or for the evolutionist---Nature!! Facial hair on men is a real sex difference. Trousers are not. That's what women wear since factory work in two World Wars won them the right to "dress like men."
So my male garments are---sideburns and mustache. What women can seldom "put on." The Scots costume is not a fault nor is it an error. However, some of them seem to think no other culture has a different version of their "kilt" and which in fact, pre-dated it. Nothing could be more false.
Tomorrow morning I shave. But not the sideburns or mustache!
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