Interesting Article about Hitomi Nomura making trad kilts in Japan

[OC Richard]

Here are boys (sporrans) and girls (tights and smaller sett) at the army's Queen Victoria School, Dunblane.
https://www.qvs.school/wp-content/up...t-22.52.19.png

That's interesting!

There are parallels with the evolution of how female band members dress in mixed-gender civilian pipe bands.

Even when I started piping (1970s) there were "Ladies' Pipe Bands" who wore rather frilly outfits.

When bands became mixed, what to do?

Our pipe band here in California, started in the 1970s, had several female members from the beginning. Our Pipe Major got some inspiration from the Grantown & District Pipe Band album cover:



So our female pipers wore blouses, ladies' skirts, nylons, and ladies' shoes. No sporrans for our ladies back then.

Here are members of Triumph Street Pipe Band (Canada) in 1976. Women in kilt hose, bonnets, and sporrans but female blouses.



Also in 1976 the Canadian Air Pipe Band. Regulation doublets, bonnets, and sporrans for everyone, though the women in the lace things that female Highland dancers wear.