Here are some good links for Celtic costuming;
especially for those interested in accurate period costumes.
General Information Sites:
For general information, there's the
Costumer's Manifesto; and their
17th,
18th,
and
19th century links pages.
For Irish attire, try:
What the
Irish Wore or
A (much) smaller Social History of Ancient Ireland
More on the léine at
McPhee's and
Garbindex.com.
For Scottish attire, try:
The
Scottish Side of Reconstructing History
For Scottish women's clothing,
this is a great reference.
Clann Donnaichaidh is a Jacobite (1630-1680 and 1745) reenactment unit,
and has guidelines for the period attire of both periods.
Ready to Wear
maintains a list of informational sites and vendors of period clothing for
all periods and many countries.
Highland and Period Wear:
My favorite source is
Tartanweb;
Douglas McGregor runs a great shop, specializing in the great kilt and
period outfits, but you'll find all your modern Scottish clothing there
too.
Boasting an impressive catalogue of Highland wear, pipes, and piping
supplies,
The British
Shop is an indispensable resource.
Another all-purpose supplier is
The Scottish Lion. Yet
another is the
Celtic
Isles Shop.
Cuillinn Craft is fine shop that does custom tailoring of their
kilts, and have a lot of period outfit offerings.
More period costuming can be found at the gift-shop at
Scottish
Tartans Museum, with great kilt items
here.
and also at
Warwear.
Mainly specializing in tartan fabric (though they sell and rent kilts
too),
House of Tartan is an excellent store.
Some days you just need socks. For your tartan hose, try
Kenneth Short.
And with those socks, shoes... well, red deer hide to make period shoes from can
be found at the
Uber Glove
company and
Shaffer
Venison Farms, Inc.. If mule deer or white-tail will do, try
Moscow Hide
and Fur.
And some days you just need a purse. Selling sporrans, and belts,
exclusively as a vendor at highland games,
Clan Leather Works
produces some great products.
And then there are the days when you need an edged weapon to complete
your ensemble. For that, I recommend
Museum Replicas, Inc..
but other vendors include
Valentine Armouries,
Brubaker Swords and Armory,
The Armory,
Viking Metal Works,
and
India Crafts
Emporium. The
Armadillo Armory has Lochaber axes, to complete the outfit with
a pole-arm
If a blade isn't enough, and you need a period firearm, try
The Rifle Shoppe.
And when you want to hit the town in a modern kilt, try a
Utilikilt.
Smoke and
Fire Company and
Jas. Townsend
and Son, Inc. are period outfitters for the 18th and 19th centuries,
mostly specializing in colonial America, but a lot of their items are appropriate
for period Scottish costume as well.