The Politicization of Scottish Dress: A Study of Highland Garb

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  • Victoria Hinderks

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29173/cons22033

Abstract

What began as an inexpensive dress for peasants and workers became a form of rebellion, and then the tool with which the Highlands became a modern industrialized society. This evolution was enhanced by the English, through the creation of the kilt, the institution of first the Act of Union and then a Hanoverian Government, and then the formulation of the manner with which the Highlands would use the economy to modernize. Within this paper I hope to argue that Scottish national identity was formed around Highland dress in the eighteenth century, and for their assimilation into the Greater British Isles. 

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2014-05-12

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Hinderks, V. (2014). The Politicization of Scottish Dress: A Study of Highland Garb. Constellations, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.29173/cons22033

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