National dress

[Greenbhoy]

Does England have a national costume?

Us Scots have the kilt, our fellow Celts can also wear a kilt and the Welsh women can wear that really cute "witchy" outfit but, if there were a dinner that every nation had to wear their national dress, what would our cousins in the south wear?

 

Suit and bowler hat? Morris-dancer outfit? Bover boots, braces, red footie t-shirt with the number 7 on the back? 

[Scyld]

Greenbhoy,If you mean the great blanket worn toga like across the body,I suppose that could be called a 'kilt' ot Kjalta in it's original Norse.Even the word isn't traditional.Tee hee!

[Greenbhoy]

Yeah, before that we were all naked! The very same national dress as every other country.

.....I suppose it would make going to weddings and official functions more interesting!

[weirworn]

Rolled up trousers, braces, shirt with no collar and rolled up sleeves, sleeveless jumper, knotted hankercheif on head.

Or green tights, jerkin, hat with a feather and a bow and arrow.

[weirworn]

Rawlinson did indeed design the Philabeg. (small kilt). He owned a foundry in Glen Affric and he watched as at the end of each shift, the men had to take off the whole of their "Great kilt". So to save them time and embarrasment he came up with the small kilt.

Whisky is from Ireland and bagpipes orriginated in India.

But as for the English national dress, a turban and sari or burqa?

[jimbo9]

England doesn't have an official costume. Due to the fact England was the first country to industrialise. However the best candidate for an English national costume is the smock which was worn by agricultural workers right up until the industrial revolution.
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[thisiswhatithink]

i think it is a mixture, white stilletoes, plus fours, a deerstalker,and a harrington ??????