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Post by paranger on Feb 26, 2021 8:05:28 GMT -7
The Conococheague Institute just down the road from me sponsored a virtual lecture this week entitled "Plaid in Pennsylvania," addressing the use of highland clothing in the mid-Atlantic colonies (PA in particular) from 1745-1785 (roughly from the Proscription Act of 1747 until independence). I found it worthwhile and so offer the YouTube link below for anyone interested. youtu.be/A5ZS24Miuf4As I said, I enjoyed and learned something from the presentation, so for me it was a "win." My only criticism of the piece will surprise no one who has read my previous posts on such topics: absent a quantitative analysis, such information is interesting, but the "cherry picked" nature of the research encourages confirmation bias, limiting its usefulness for informing a comprehensive picture of material culture in a given time and place. |
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Post by ewoaf on Feb 26, 2021 16:40:39 GMT -7
I'm going to watch that yet, but basically you're saying that "yes it existed but we don't know exactly how often"?
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Post by paranger on Feb 26, 2021 16:58:00 GMT -7
I'm going to watch that yet, but basically you're saying that "yes it existed but we don't know exactly how often"? Precisely. |
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Post by ewoaf on Feb 27, 2021 5:39:55 GMT -7
My wife says it has to wait till tomorrow. It's something I've always wanted to delve deeper into because of the folks that show up to the events after watching too much outlander. They always say that the 47 ban wasn't enforced here or whatever. Plaid pops up in runaway ads here and there, but I've always been hesitant to really use it for American 18th c aside from my 84th kit. It always goes into my 19th c fabric bin.
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Post by paranger on Feb 27, 2021 6:09:41 GMT -7
My wife says it has to wait till tomorrow. It's something I've always wanted to delve deeper into because of the folks that show up to the events after watching too much outlander. They always say that the 47 ban wasn't enforced here or whatever. Plaid pops up in runaway ads here and there, but I've always been hesitant to really use it for American 18th c aside from my 84th kit. It always goes into my 19th c fabric bin. I will say that the lecturer makes a pretty good case that the ban was not applicable outside Scotland, and sometimes ignored even there. He convinced me that the ban was not really a factor in the colonies. That said, PA was mostly settled by Ulster Scots who were lowlanders that left Scotland for Ireland in the 17th century. Why would we expect that people already multiple generations removed from Scotland (and the lowlands at that) would have resisted material cultural assimilation of the broader Anglo-American world to such an extent? I tend to think that exploiting the loopholes in the Proscription Act was a deliberate statement by those with Jacobite sympathies. Flora MacDonald would be perhaps the most prominent example, and I should think if anywhere, Southern Appalachia in the Carolinas where there were concentrations of recent highland immigrants would see such dress more frequently. My two cents. |
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Post by ewoaf on Feb 27, 2021 11:37:44 GMT -7
Of which there were copious amounts leading up to the revolution. We definitely see it reflected in motif buttons.
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Post by artificer on Apr 19, 2021 9:51:43 GMT -7
I tend to think that exploiting the loopholes in the Proscription Act was a deliberate statement by those with Jacobite sympathies. Flora MacDonald would be perhaps the most prominent example, and I should think if anywhere, Southern Appalachia in the Carolinas where there were concentrations of recent highland immigrants would see such dress more frequently. My two cents. Interesting Video. Thanks for sharing. It's funny that the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge had 80 hand picked Loyalist Highland Militia armed with basket hilt "claymores," charge with the cry "Broadswords and King George," yet I've not found documentation on the dress of those and the rest of the 500 Highland Scots on the Loyalist side. I wonder how many wore the Plaid (Great Kilt) or possibly the Philabeag (Little Kilt)? Also, how many more were armed with basket hilt swords that were not in the hand picked 80 man attacking force? Even if only those 80 were armed with basket hilt swords, which I think unlikely, that's still a Bunch of basket hilt swords to be found here in the Colonies. thehistoryjunkie.com/battle-of-moores-creek-bridge-facts/and: www.carolana.com/NC/Revolution/revolution_battle_of_moores_creek.htmlGus |
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