Very smart!
Seems that we've been doing this music for the same amount of time, pretty much: I got my first set of pipes in 1975 and joined my first Pipe Band in 1977.
I still have those first 1977 Ghillies, made by Keltic. They've always been very comfortable, but they just look too shabby now. And I have a Balmoral bonnet from the early 1980s that I still wear, a Mackie.
Here too, in Southern California, it's a bit warm for tweed! For my piping gigs I have a very comfortable and lightweight black Argyll, old ex-hire I got off Ebay. It wouldn't do to show up for a solo gig in shirtsleeves (but funny enough my avatar shows just that! It was an informal church gig).
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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