The Sulu v
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The Kilt
suggestion in the English
zine Tailor and Cutter that Englishman should shed his ers and take to the kilt of Icot was too much for the r writer of the Suva Fiji s. He immediately put in a , in print, for the Fiji sulu substitute for the English s trousers. nmented The Fiji Times : “Pos the Tailor and Cutter takes a too much on itself when it 5 out the Scottish kilt for lavish on the score of elegance and ,ur. The sulu surely has an dent claim to distinction, ad though the pro-European rs of masi did not achieve the '-developed forms of dotti ng which produced the Scottish , the history of the present-day and its lineal predecessors is ne degree comparable with that 5 Scottish garment, ad if the sulu has a claim in vn right, so has the lavalava of a and the piupiu of the New nd Maori.”
sample of the Polynesian lavalava (in case, Tongan) see below. For the Fiji sulu, see top right.