Figure 1.--Dallas' was a Glasgow department store. Here is some of the infants and toddler clothes offered in 1915. |
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Scottish mail order catalogs and newspaper advertisements offer a very useful time line on changing fashion trends. Scottish consumpers used English mail order catalogs, but stores in Scotland had catalogs and advertized in Scottish newspapers. I am not sure precisely when mail order catalogs first appeared in Scotland. I believe that they were initially an American inovation. HBC has begun collect mail order pages. Advertisements appeared in the newspapers before the first mail order catalogs appeared.
We notice Dallas' castalog. The catalog offered a complete line of children's clothes. Dallas' was a Glasgow department store that offered a complete line of children's clothes. An Edinburgh kilt maker advertised a complete range of Highland kilt items in 1910.
We have a few Scottish items from the 1930s. They look very similar to the comparable Englidsh garments. Boys still commonly wore short trousers into their early teens. School wear seems an important part of the offerings for boys. Many wool garments would have actually been made in Scotland. A Scottish reader tells us, "Pettigrew & Stephens was a large department store situated in Glasgow which was 25 miles from Falkirk where I grew up. Even in the 1950s it was common for families to take the train to Glasgow to shop on local holidays. I was outfitted several times at this store and at the large Fraser store in Buchanan Street. Here is an advert with a variety of garments from 1933."
We note Highland outfits offered by the Paisley's, a department store in the Glasgow area. The ad we found is undated, but looks like the 1950s. Interestingly they were presented as suitable for either 'country' or school wear. chool wear referred primarily to private schools, some of which had kilt school uniforms. While this was most commonly with private schools, we also notice some boys in state schools wearing kilts, especially in the Highlands. We have found an unidentified catalog or adverisement page offering kilts. It is also undatedm but looks like the 1950s to us. This company offered both boys anf girls kilts. The boys kilts were bodice kilts age up to age 7 years. The kilts for younger boys were meant to be worn ith a blouse without a jackert for parties. The kilts for older boys were meant to be worn with jackets or westcoats (vests). There were tweed jckets for regular wear and velvet jckets for dressing up. There were a;lso kilts for girls. They look like kilts for Scottish dance, but there were also suspender kilts that look more like skirts.
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