A filibeg is a type of which garment?
Belted plaid the modern tailored kilt. Yet the belted plaid is seldom seen at Highland gatherings today, and even knowledge of this garment is not widespread. The origins of the modern short kilt (or " féileadh beag", meaning little wrap, and often Anglicized to philabeg or filibeg with various spellings) are still debated. What is clear is that the philabeg originated from the belted plaid sometime in the early 18th Century, or perhaps somewhat earlier. The philabeg consisted essentially of the lower half of a plaid, gathered or pleated and held around the waist with a belt. Later, the gatherings were stitched
Skin-tight garment a "second skin" that acts as a fetishistic surrogate for the wearer's own skin. The most common forms of this are spandex fetishism and rubber fetishism, in which the skin-tight material is also shiny. Skin-tight garments are often depicted as "futuristic" clothing in science fiction: see also sex in science fiction. Skin-tight garment A skin-tight garment is a garment that is held to the skin usually by elastic tension using some type of stretch fabric. Commercial stretch fabrics ('elastomerics') such as spandex or elastane (widely branded as 'Lycra') came onto the market in 1962, and revolutionized many areas of the