Proper shirt for wear with a Sheriffmuir

[Baeau]

.....I am not sure why attitudes changed but change they did, but the problem was that there was little kilt attire knowledge available to guide the new kilt wearers----much like the rest of the world now with their questions and advice on this website -----so assumptions were made, often based on guesswork and hearsay and those resulted in different choices being made and perpetuated. For example pirate/jacobite shirts being thought of as traditional, black bow ties, white hose and PC's/sherriffmuirs/montrose jackets/etc., being regarded as suitable, correct even, formal day attire. Added to which of course, the kilt hire shops mushroomed to fulfil the need. Sadly the assorted advice given by the unknowing has perpetuated the differences of opinion of styles and suitability of kilt attire for any given event, between the Highland kilt wearers and those of the rest of Scotland......

Jock, I receive the e-mails from Visit Scotland (formerly Scottish Tourist Board). The link, below, is to their Burns Night Guide. Note the shirt illustrated. To myself, this substantiates your post.

https://ebooks.visitscotland.com/bur...3-00155d32386f

[Father Bill]

Jock, I receive the e-mails from Visit Scotland (formerly Scottish Tourist Board). The link, below, is to their Burns Night Guide. Note the shirt illustrated. To myself, this substantiates your post.

https://ebooks.visitscotland.com/bur...3-00155d32386f

To me... just sad.

[Allan Thomson]

Jock, I receive the e-mails from Visit Scotland (formerly Scottish Tourist Board). The link, below, is to their Burns Night Guide. Note the shirt illustrated. To myself, this substantiates your post.

https://ebooks.visitscotland.com/bur...3-00155d32386f

Deite being the Scottish tourist board isVisit Scotland really an authority?...

[Baeau]

...Despite being the Scottish tourist board isVisit Scotland really an authority?...

I assumed they might / would be. Until early January, when I dug through the inbox.

[Jock Scot]

I assumed they might / would be. Until early January, when I dug through the inbox.

Thank you. You make my point perfectly.

[Highland Logan]

It seems that Visit Scotland are promulgating a similar view to that I expressed earlier. So who is right I wonder?

I assume they are a Government department, so there you go.

Frank

[Highland Logan]

I think they are a QUANGO so even less accountable than any elected representatives.

You miss my point. Government bureaucrats... the unelected who often, as the thought goes, could not make a go of it in the public sector. I'm not suggesting they can be held accountable, I'm suggesting the information they provide is not always up to snuff.

Frank

[Father Bill]

What on earth is a "Quango" anyway? Is it another of these acronyms designed to communicate secretively between members of the cogniscati?

[Highland Logan]

What on earth is a "Quango" anyway? Is it another of these acronyms designed to communicate secretively between members of the cogniscati?

a semipublic administrative body outside the civil service but receiving financial support from the government, which makes senior appointments to it.

[Father Bill]

a semipublic administrative body outside the civil service but receiving financial support from the government, which makes senior appointments to it.

Helpful. Do you know what it stands for? Is it indeed an acronym?