There is a "military history & heritage" forum here that I suppose would be more appropriate than "general kilt talk". In the end it doesn't seem to matter what forum. True that this is the forum most people see AFAIK.
It's quite amazing just how many different orders of dress there are, there have long been, in the Highland battalions.
Several orders of dress have a kilt version and a trews or trousers version, or both.
And there are orders that have two (or more) kilt versions, one with plain brogues, selfcoloured hose, and leather sporrans and another version with spats, diced hosetops, and long hair sporran.
There are stone shirts, pale blue shirts, and sage green shirts in otherwise similar dress. It boggles the mind.
Here's a thread I did recently on the RRS piper's uniforms, made more complicated due to the retention of Antecedent Dress and because solo pipers, solo drummers, and the entire pipes & drums often compete at Highland Games and usually wear a mix of military and civilian kit there.
http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...orm-rrs-94092/
Last edited by OC Richard; 16th October 19 at 07:23 PM.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
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