how should my argyll jacket fit?

[OC Richard]

As a piper in a pipe band, my stance has always been that if it's hot enough to wear short sleeves, it's hot enough to ditch the vest/waiscoat and tie as well!

What I find interesting is how often the military has more common sense in these matters than civilian pipe bands.

Here's what you say: no ties, and short (rolled-up) sleeves.



I was in a band back in 2005-2006 that didn't go with the waistcoat thing. We got the Pilot shirts, shortsleeved and with epaulettes, which were very comfortable in our hot weather. (Here's yours truly, making a bobble in the march-in!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6tammmA-GM

Waiscoats and short sleeves don't go together in my book. Just looks odd.

Yes for sure. But quite a few bands were doing that look, to the point that it was starting to look normal.

BTW do you play in the Louisville pipe band? I saw them recently in Wellington.