The Highland _field-dress_ of the men was of a coarser texture, and thickened by fulling; it was called _cadda_ (_cath da’_, the war colour), and was a _tartan_ of such colours as were least likely to betray the wearer, among the woods and heaths, either to the game he was in quest of, or to his enemies. The dyes were mostly extracted from woad, when it could be got, and from heath-tops, the bark and tender twigs of the alder, and other vegetable substances. As to the ancient _form_ of the dress, nothing could be more simple: the _gentlemen_, having less frequent occasion to use their _full suit_ as a _blanket_, wore a yellow shirt, a vest, trowsers, and mantle, of the same fashion as their neighbours. In Ireland, a few centuries ago, the _lower class_ seldom encumbered themselves with dress of any kind within doors; and there is every reason to suppose that this was also the case among their brethren in Scotland. When they went out, they threw a light blanket round their shoulders, the upper part made tight with skewers, and the lower gathered up into folds, which they secured under the girdle, from which the sword, dagger, purse, &c., were suspended; this they called _feile_, a word of the same origin with the Scotish _fell_, English, _peel_; Old English, _pilche_; German and Northern, _peltz_, _pels_, &c.; and the Latin, _pellis_, all which signified an _external surface_, _skin_, or _covering_ of any kind. _Skins_, in the modern acceptation of the term, were, no doubt, the first _covering_; and the name was afterwards properly enough applied to a covering of cloth. At night they took out the skewers, unbuckled the girdle, and reduced the _feile_ to its primary form of a blanket, to sleep in. The women wore a petticoat, or trowsers, of skin, cloth, or what they could get, and a cloth thrown round their bodies when they went out. As civilization advanced, a shirt, with a tunic, or short jacket, was introduced; the plaits of the _feile_ were rendered permanent by sewing, and the _plaid_, to be used either as a mantle or blanket, was added. The _kilt_, _feilebeg_ (_little feile_), or petticoat, now worn, has succeeded to the folded-up ends of the original blanket; _it is all that remains of the ancient costume_, and was reduced to its present form some time in the beginning of the last century. The _bonnet_, or flat, blue thrum cap, is of a very modern date, and was introduced from the Lowlands. The gentlemen of the Highlands wore such hats and caps as were worn by gentlemen of their times in neighbouring countries; and, in the days of our grandfathers, the lower class of Highlanders were, by their Lowland neighbours (in the north-east Lowlands, at least), denominated _humblies_, from their wearing no covering on their head but their hair, which, at a more early period, they probably matted and felted, for horror and defence, as the Irish did in Queen Elizabeth’s time. The helmet-looking bonnet,