Figure 1.--This detail from the 1901 Eaton Spring and Summer catalog shows one Highland kilt outfit along with several outfits referred to as kilt suits which were middy blouses worn with skirted garments. Click on the imge for more details.
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Figure 1.--This detail from the 1901 Eaton Spring and Summer catalog shows one Highland kilt outfit along with several outfits referred to as kilt suits which were middy blouses worn with skirted garments. Click on the imge for more details. |
We do not yet have detailed chromolgical information on the kilt outfits worn by Canadian boys. We note portraits from the 1860s showing boys wearing both plaid dresses and Highland kilts. A Eton's newspaper adverisement from the 1900s show that Highland kilt outfits were still available along with outfits called kilt suits which were actually various middly blouses worn with a skirted garment. There were several diferent styles of middy blouses worn with these kilt suits. The skirt garments to be rather much the same on each of these suits, except one. Three appear to be simple skirts with not hint of kilt styling. The fourth is styled more like a kilt. We suspect that boys with Scottish ancestry would be the most likely to wear the Highland kilt outfits and that the kilt suit outfits were likely worn by a wide range of boys including boys of English and French ancestry.
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