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     It's not just women who wear skirts.   1   In Scotland, men wear a kind of skirt called kilt. The kilt is
their national dress and an important part of their tradition.
A kilt is a colored skirt reaching down to the knees. It has checks(格子)on it with different colors, like
red and blue.    2   
       3   There are many stories about it. One story is that kilt was invented in the 1720s by an English
factory owner, Thomas Rawlinson.
Thomas Rawlinson had a number of Scottish workers in his factory and he thought their clothing got in
the way of their work.     4    
Today, most Scotsmen look the kilt as formal dress. They usually only wear them at wedding or big
dinner.     5    

A. Each family in Scotland has it's own colors.
B. There are only a few men who still wear a kilt every day.
C. How did the Scots start to wear skirts ?
D. It was important for Scots to wear skirts at any time.
E. So he cut their long clothes into shorter skirts.
F. Wearing skirts is very beautiful for women.
G. Men can wear them, too.
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