Figure 1.--This CDV portrait shows a German boy wearing what might be called a blouse kilt suit. We havde no idea waht the Germans wouild have called it. They did use Kilt and Schottenrock, but those terms may have been more common with tartan fabrics. He has a great pull toy horse. The portrait is undated, we might guess the 1880s. The studio was Muller & Pilgram which apparently had studios in Leipzig, Dresden, and Halle.

We are not sure what these garments were called in German. We are not sure if these garments were called kilts or skirts. The Germans use the term der Kilt. They also say der Schottenrock which can also be translated as Scottish or tartan skirt. The term for skirt is der Rock. Just how these terms were used we are not entirely sure. We suspect that Kilt and Schottenrock were used primarily for tartan kilts/skirts. We are less sured about what the klt suit outfits were called which were not tartan. We do see kilt suit outfits, but they were not as common as in America and Britain. And we just do not know just how the terns were used by German mothers.

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