the kilt

Let me tell you a story.

The original Scottish kilts looked like the ones in Braveheart. They were longer, and draped over the shoulder, and were a lot warmer.

Once there was a forest in England the landowner wanted cut down. As the English do, he brought a bunch of Scotsmen down to do the hard work. The longer, baggy kilts got caught in the tree-cutting machines/equipment/stuff, which I imagine was quite a problem. What did they do?

The Scots worked naked.
What a solution.
No more dangling articles caught in machines. (Actually, I'm not so sure on that...)

The English landowner didn't seem to agree, and was really quite affronted by the nakedness on his land, so he designed a new kilt that just went around the waist.
The modern kilt! An English innovation.