Excerpt from The Development of Male ApparelLet us go back, in imagination, some two thousand years and take a peep at our ancestors who lived and ¿ourished at the period when man's dress was a much more simple. Affair than it is to-day. O A single garment of skins, form ing a sort of kilt, was worn wrap ped around the middle, while no doubt in the winter, or on nights when the weather was chilly a cloak was added to the costume, but the full dress of primitive man was decidedly scanty.othe fashion of the kilt, of course, survives to the present day in the Highlands, and is worn by soldiers in Scottish regiments. 9 o 9.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.