The Cornish Kilt?
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Reporter Michael Piper takes to the streets of Launceston wearing plaid and raises a few eyebrows as he quizzes the public about whether Cornwall will adopt the Celtic fashion of the kilt. It is clearly a little draughty for some. Cornwall did register their own national tartan for the first time in 1963. The tartan was designed by Robert Morton Nance, nephew of poet and revisionist Cornish bard E E Morton Nance who helped revive the language and set up the Cornish Gorseth.