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HBC has little information that kiltsuits were worn in England. We have rarely noted photographs of English boys wearing kilt suits. We have, however, noted some 19th century images. The few examples we have may just reflect our more limited archiveof English images. English mothers had some idea about how a kilt should be worn, although certainly not as much as Scottish mothers. The decision of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert to dress the princes in kilts mean that the boys wore proper Highland kilts. There was, however, no precedence for any kilt-like garments like kilt suits. A Scottish reader has provided an assesment of kilt suits in Scotland and England. His conclusion was that they were not worn in either England or Scotland. The kilt suit appears to have been a destinctly American garment. We have, however, noted a few images of English boys wearing kilt suits. That meant kilt outfits with matching jackets and kilts, rather than tartan kilts.
The earliest example is an unidentified boy, perhaps as early as the 1840s. We are, however, not sure about the date. Unlike American boys, quite a number of English boys appear to have worn sporans with their kilt suits. We note English boys wearing kilt suits in the 1870s, they probably were worn earlier, but HBC does not have information as to the actual time line or the extent to which they were worn. We also do not know if the kilt suit was a fashion or suggests a Scottish family connection.
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