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Kilt suits, unlike Higland kilts, were almost always worn with long stockings, very rarely with knee socks. We see some knee socks, but very few. This is certainly the case in the United States, we are less sure for Britain at the time, but we have not notice then there eiyher. Kilt suits were almost always worn with long stockings. We are not sure just why these conventions were so strong. Normally there is a degree of diversity when large numbers of people were involved. But unlike most popular fashions, these conventions were very strictly followed. Not only do we almost always see long stockings , but we also almost always see skirtb levers just below the knee or lower. Here we see a boy wearing striped long stockings (figure 1). These striped or more corectly banded long stockings were popular in the 1870s and early-80s. Afterwards solid colored or flat dark long stockings became the standard. Kilts and kilt suits were mostly worn in the late-19th Century. By this time pantalettes had become much less common for children, especially for boys, but we still see them with long stockings. While they were still worm as late as the 1890s, they were not common with kilt suits, at least pantalettes extening below the hem line are rarely seen, as far as we can find in the photographic record.
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