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Magic Kilts?

Clan MacIntosh iKilt: a stylish and sleek looking kilt (+2 Bonus to Cha based skills) that, when the command word is spoken, lets all your allies in a 60' radius know who you've killed within the last 24 hours. It also prevents the user from Flashing.
 

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Kilt of Crotch Covering.
This kilt has been enchanted to, with a command word, completely cover the wearer's groin area. The kilt cannot in any way be moved from total coverage without the command word being spoken again.

Clan MacIntosh iKilt: ... It also prevents the user from Flashing.

I play in a pipe band. Believe me when I say that the fear of flashing is rarely a consideration. Quite the opposite, in fact.
 


OMG - Where to begin :D

Modern kilts are a recent design largely aimed at persuading Americans to buy wool. The original was way longer and wrapped around the shoulder as a cloak. A modern kilt would be about as much use in a battle as a cheerleader's skirt, as they start to slip when you run. You simply cannae wield a Claymore if one hand's holding your skirt up.

By the time the modern short kilt appeared in 1792 muskets had replaced Claymores, so slippage wasn't a problem.

The tartans were a form of branding developed to prevent much stabbing over who sold how much wool to the Americans.

The Red King, MacBheatha mac Fhionnlaigh, was an epic warrior king later slandered by some ink-happy scribe from Stratford on Avon. He is known for both cleaving the heads of his enemies and being extra charitable towards the poor.

This really happened:

Carry on Up the Khyber - YouTube
Then there is the possibility (unconfirmed) that the short kilt was invented by a factory owner, as the more cumbersome great kilt (the real kilt, if you will) had a tendency to get caught in the cogs.

And yeah, Shakespeare was a British playwrite in a time where failing to please the British crown would destroy your career. So, he made of MacBheatha a villain, much as he had Richard III - the last British King to take the field of battle in person. (Favored weapon a hammer.) In school our teacher prefaced the play with: Writ by an English playwrite, to please an English Crown, the story we tell is a lie.

Some places, not clans, did have weaves and patterns that were unique, but they were more a mark of a particular weaver and/or family of weavers. The availability of dyes was also a major factor. Crushed shells, imported dyes....

The Auld Grump
 

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