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I recently heard that there were numerous costume errors in the movie Braveheart in relation to the era, ie: much of what they wore came along at a later date. I was wondering if anyone on here knew what these innaccuracies were, and what the actual Scots used to wear.
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I've heard that the ancestor of the kilt was a huge toga-like contraption that would often get in the way when industrial-era Scots started working in factories, and so it was tailored back to the kilt that we know today.
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The whole white wedding dress thing. That tradition didn't come along till quite late in the middle ages, IIRC.
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Inaccuracies in dress, bah. What about the inaccuracy of fighting the Battle of Stirling Bridge on, apparently, a flat field with not a river for miles around?
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There are websites that list the various technical oopses that abound - from extras wearing watches and sunglasses to rubber weaponry bending in mid-swing.
As for factual inaccuracies - well, yeah. This isn't the History channel, after all.
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Yeah, some of the locals questioned Gibson saying, "What happened to the bridge?" He said, "Well, we tried the bridge but it got in the way." They replied, "Aye, that's what the English thought, too."
EDIT: Yeah, my friend insisted for a long time that the kilt was just invented in the industrial era. I showed him that it was actually based on ancient Celtic designs.
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You may be right. I actually haven't looked it up, so I don't really know. But I'm fairly sure that they weren't invented in the 13th century.
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