WI: Kilts/Tartan remained part of the traditional clothing of Galicia

From Tartan Gallaecia:
"In Galicia, male skirts were worn up until the 18th century. In much earlier times, dated from the 3rd century BC, archaeologists have found several statues of Galician kings wearing a primitive kilt which shows clearly a tartan pattern consisting of criss-crossed horizontal and vertical bands."

"The modern Galician national costume dates back from the late 18th century, when the trousers had eventually displaced the masculine skirt in daily wear.

There is however graphic evidence of the wearing of the kilt in Galicia up until the 18th century, such as the portrait of a man from the city of Betanzos who appears wearing kilt, or a 18th century painting of a wedding in the city of Tui, where the groom and the piper also appear wearing the kilt."

For more information in the history of kilts in Galicia, go to this website.

With a clear POD (18th century), make kilts/tartans stay as part of the traditional costume of Galician men until present times, instead of shifting to trousers, just like in OTL.

Note:
When I say Galicia in this scenario, it's the Spanish autonomous community well-known for Cathedral of St. James in Santiago de Compostela.
 
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Here's some examples of Galician men wearing kilts/tartans:
tui.jpg

betanzos.jpg
 
That's bull.

It really looks like another tentative to make Galicia pass as a celtic country : guess what? They're not.

The kilt itself is a relativly recent feature, appearing in the late Middle-Ages. Even admitting that the bretons that settled Spain in the VII kept their identities past the IX (I admit that in this period, the Bishop of Iria was also bishop "of the Bretons"), they would have need a time travel machine to use scotland-like kilts.

Male skirt (that is so definitely not the same thing) was found in Europe, in different places.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Fleeing_bayeux_tapestry.png
Look! Tunic and Skirts on Bayeux Tepstry! It proofs that Normans were Gallicians!

Roman Emperors passed decree in 397 and 399 to forbid pants as barbarians, and advised skirts instead...My god, it can only mean that Romans were Galicians!

Meanwhile in the sane and real world, we understand that male skirt was a thing up to relativly recently.

EDIT : Explaining the a bit ranting part.
After a while you grow really tired of Normans think they're proud Viking warrior, Gascons believing that they're ancient basques, and so on. Not only it's irritatingly wrong; but this sort of lunacy ends more quickly than you can tought in more or less nasty statements whom less is separating populations from other on pretty much retarded observations.
 
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The wearing of kilts was apparently even more widespread than the western Atlantic region. The Tarim Basin mummies of central Asia, from about 1000 BC and even older, buried their dead in tartan fabrics, including kilt-like garments. A bronze statue from that culture shows a kneeling warrior wearing a kilt.

The earliest historically recorded language from that region is Tocharian, an Indo-European language, and both the mummies themselves and early paintings show a people with red or blond hair. So kilts might be associated with early Indo-Europeans in general.
 
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