Yes I try always to make it clear I'm coming from by background in the Pipe Band scene, 40 years now.

At any Highland Games around here one might observe that rather than one culture you're seeing a large number of sub-cultures. Each tends to hang out in their area with others of their ilk, each has a different reason for attending the Games, and each has its own "fashion culture".

The clan tent people tend to dress one way, the Country Dance people another, the Highland Dance people another, the Pipe Band people another yet.

I never got a sense of the situation in Scotland, because at the three Games our band attended I can't recall seeing anyone but pipe band people and Highland dance people.