[Closed] English national costume

Can't say I've ever seen it before but ......

http://www.englandandenglishhistory.com/official_traditional_english_national_dress/introduction/default.aspx

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kilts are just a smartened up verison of what they were 1000 years ago, in the same way we wear trousers and a shirt/jacket

Uplink, no mention of the Tramp Stamp or Ar*e Antlers, so not quite traditional. 😯

The modern kilt is a victorian invention.

This is quite interesting if you are interesting in the history of kilts...

http://www.albanach.org/kilt.html

As far as I can see from my extensive observation of English weekend visitors to Edinburgh - their national dress must be a set of flashing devil horns and a black t-shirt with "Tracey's Hen Night" for women and a bra, panties, wig and lipstick combo for the men.

Pretty similar to the Scots who seem to descend on Blackpool with the added benefit[?] of a tartan cap & ginger wig ensemble

seems those sort of tourists are the same everywhere

I think the Morrris Dancing outfits suit you English boys just fine...

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Uplink - that's actually blackpool locals you're seeing - they look like that after generations of the womenfolk being impregnated by the marauding hordes during the Glasgow fair....

Yokel smocks, oi reckons.

TandemJeremy - Member
The modern kilt is a victorian invention.

Large amounts of what we consider traditional was "re-invented" by our overly imaginative Victorian forebears!

The English don't need a national dress or song or dish, because [b]we won[/b].

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The English don't need a national dress or song or dish, because we won.

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Nooo, not the football. The Welsh, Scottish and Irish need to have their national dress, food and anthem because they lost and the English won - you know, the fighting and wars and general conquering and that.

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Of course that's true miketually. That'll be why we have a Scottish PM ruling the English 😉

That'll be why we have a Scottish PM ruling the English

Not through choice though.

The Queen rules England & she's German .....oh hang on a minute !!!!!!

[i]Not through choice though.[/i] And that makes it even sweeter 😈

England conquering Scotland is news to me. Someone better get EdwardI out of his lead coffin then.

Not through choice though. And that makes it even sweeter

Even sweeter that he will probably be one of the shortest serving PM's in the history of Britian.

Possibly the 4th shortest serving PM. But whats your point?

Possibly the 4th shortest serving PM. But whats your point?

Short lived victory. I did say "one of", which can include any in the bottom 4.

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England conquering Scotland is news to me. Someone better get EdwardI out of his lead coffin then.

Didn't need conquering as ruined themselves and so needed England to bail them out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darien_scheme

Not much different to present day then?

North sea oil anyone?

>the fighting and wars and general conquering and that<

Think you'll find the Scots had a disproportionate hand in sorting a lot of your wars for you - the Clan system came in rather handy after 1745

Thepurist; where can I meet such a true vision of loveliness?

miketually -
The English don't need a national dress or song or dish, because we won.

England was never great in its own right except possibly under Edward 1, who was a king who could lay claim to greatness.

A Scottish as Bonnie Prince Charlie was he?

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What language do they speak in Scotland?* What language is on all forms, newspapers etc? What language is spoken in the Scottish Parliament?

*By the majority of people, not a few drunks in a pub in some remote Highland area.

Nice one, miketually!

Nice one, miketually!

I was actually quoting someone else 🙂 Reginald D Hunter, I think.

RudeBoy -
What language do they speak in Scotland?* What language is on all forms, newspapers etc? What language is spoken in the Scottish Parliament?

Same language as used in USA, American 🙂