About Prince Charlies sans waistcoats worn with long ties yes it was a popular Pipe Band look in the 1980s.
Up until around 1980 most Pipe Bands either wore military-style Full Dress (doublet, long plaid, horsehair sporran, feather bonnet, spats) or civilian Evening Dress (Regulation doublet or Prince Charlie, bow tie, belted plaid, Evening sporran, full tartan hose, buckled brogues) but that that time bands began experimenting with simpler, more comfortable outfits.
Odd hybrid looks were seen such as Prince Charlie + Glengarry + long tie + brown Day sporran + hand-knit Arran hose + Ghillie brogues, and almost any combination of Evening and Day dress imaginable.
Here's a band showing that sort of thing
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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