I had much the same experience. USPS has really underperformed this Christmas season...they are normally reasonably fast, and quite good about tracking. Not this year.

My big headache is that...

PM sent, I'll take it.

Patton
Lawrence of Arabia...specifically, the first half. The greatest cinematography ever.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Blazing Saddles
The Adventures of Robin Hood

Nope. Wear it like a dirk. Or get a 24-incher and carry it as a rod of office.

I'll just have to wear conure (small parrot) feathers. My bird deigns to provide me with those on occasion. :pith:

I read a book by an American pilot who joined the Canadian Army in 1940 (to get to the UK, he wound up flying with the Eagle Squadron). He wound up in a kilted unit. They claimed the kilt offered...

Aiieeee! My eyes!

I'm about to pull the trigger...and the title says it all. Casual or semi-trad? I'm trying to lose weight, so I'm leaning toward the former...but the semi-traditional probably will look better on a...

True. There were truckloads of Scots and Scottish Americans on both sides spread among the regiments.

And the Canadian participation is not as appreciated as it should be - certainly not as well...

Hmmm...

I've been studying the '45 campaign myself, and tend toward a middle view. Prince Charles Edward was brave and hardy, but not a good strategist. The biggest mistakes the Jacobites made...

That's what has me worried. That could come too close for comfort. :(

I thought the whole point of a belted plaid was that you wore it over your leine/long shirt in the daytime. At night, it became your blanket and tent.

I've got my private license...but am also a flight test engineer for the U.S. Government. I've got over 30 different types in my logbook, everything from a Pitts Special to a KC-135 - including four...

I think clueless customers are another issue.

Very often, people tend to buy the cheapest article on the market regardless of cost/quality ratio - and frequently regardless of whether it will get...

With respect to the manufacturing argument, I'd like to point out that high-end craftsmanship never goes out of style. Not among people familiar with it. There is the question of...

Seems to me that the appropriate kilt car would be a Jaguar. XK-120 to E-series. Or a Land Rover.

On the other hand, Congress has granted such permission on occasion. IIRC, there was a blanket permission granted to American service members during the Second World War.

I'm planning on being there.

All this being said, it occurs to me that if someone wanted to wear tartan, the most historic way would be as a vest. Confederate troops were especially prone to mixing civilian clothes in with...

Stick your tongue firmly in cheek, don your full British Highland regiment uniform, and go as a member of the British Expeditionary Force dispatched to reinforce the Confederate Army.

After all,...

Ah, but what of the famed Kentucky Colonelcies?

I just ordered it. Duffy's work is good, I've read several of his books. Much obliged.

Ironically, I'm reading this with my conure sitting on my computer.

I'd bet that most of the suppliers of Civil War reenactment clothing could do that fairly easily.

My thanks to everyone. I've got a couple of books on order.