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Bonnie? WTH?!? What was he, some kind of cross-dresser?!? ;^)

I recall reading that, after The '45 (1745 uprising, pron. "Farty Five"), the British crown banned the playing of the pipes, and the wearing of the kilt and bearing of the claymore for 35 years.

Tartans were being made and worn in central Asia a long, long time ago.

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