Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
In the 17th century, the Scottish kilt wasn’t the tailored garment we know today. Rather, it was a long piece of tartan that could be worn in a number of ways depending on the weather and activity, yet it was uniquely Scottish. When James II was deposed as the last Catholic king of England (he was King James VII in Scotland) in 1688, Jacobites from the Scottish Highlands fought to restore the Catholic Stuart line to the throne for decades- until the Battle of Culloden in 1746….
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