Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1896 — The Oldest. [ARTICLE]

The Oldest.

Among articles of Western costume, the two oldest are perhaps the Highland kilt and the smock-frock of tho West country English laborer. It is not probable that either of them haß altered much for a thousand years. The smock-frock was the peasant dress In early Saxon times, and the kilt would seem to he a development of the klrtle or fringed girdle, which was pfobably the earliest garment worn by man. Socrates was said to remember the faces and names of all who attended his discourses. *