Tartan week in NYC

**Jock Scot** · 13th January 25, 04:59 AM

Why make life complicated? Leave the SD at home, it really is no big deal.

**RGM1** · 13th January 25, 05:11 AM

Happy to leave my sgian dubh home, my bigger question is how best to experience the event.

**AFS1970** · 15th January 25, 08:07 PM

The parade on Saturday is the star of the show, but there are quite a few events throughout the week. There is an official after party that goes fairly late into the evening, but I have gone to various pubs in the area of the parade route and generally found others that were there for the same festivities.

**Jock Scot** · 10th March 25, 03:50 AM

Originally Posted by RGM1

Happy to leave my sgian dubh home, my bigger question is how best to experience the event.

I don't think its an event that is commonly held in Scotland. Perhaps, they might do something in Glasgow? I would be interested to hear your thoughts after the event.

**Janner52** · 10th March 25, 07:12 AM

There is going to be a tartan parade in Edinburgh on the 10th of May.

**RGM1** · 30th March 25, 05:43 AM

A question for the pipers in the group. Do you just ignore the rain when piping in a parade? You obviously can't manage an umbrella. My sense of modern tweeds is they don't provide much protection. I hate the idea of wearing a jacket over my kilt outfit since part of the point of being kilted is for your tartan to be seen. I am planning to travel light for the tartan day parade which means minimal changes of dry clothes. Ie once damp, will stay damp.

**Father Bill** · 30th March 25, 06:24 AM

I'm not a piper, but the traditional rain gear is a waterproof Inverness style cape. (I know someone will soon post pictures of these in use.)

The pipers' version of these has a section under the arm which is designed to prevent slippage of the air-bag. It does indeed cover most of the tartan which is unfortunate but a reality. Wet pipers are generally unhappy pipers.

I have just such an Inverness cape which I prefer as my rain gear and love to wear.

**jsrnephdoc** · 30th March 25, 07:13 AM

Originally Posted by RGM1

A question for the pipers in the group. Do you just ignore the rain when piping in a parade? You obviously can't manage an umbrella. My sense of modern tweeds is they don't provide much protection. I hate the idea of wearing a jacket over my kilt outfit since part of the point of being kilted is for your tartan to be seen. I am planning to travel light for the tartan day parade which means minimal changes of dry clothes. Ie once damp, will stay damp.

One of the reasons I joined this group was because of a random thought that it might be nice to own a REAL Inverness Cape, one actual JUSTIFICATION for that being that I live (Montana) where it still sometimes gets VERY cold in Winter. I've never actually touched or even SEEN a wool Inverness Cape. Kinloch Anderson advertises that they sell them but had none to show me when we visited Edinburgh in summer 2023. I see in the iOS App and website for NYC Tartan week that there will be a few retailers scattered about on parade day. Rain might provide truly clever ones an opportunity to sell Rain Capes, but I think the usual source for them is Mr. Antony in Scotland, so no opportunity there.

I HAVE seen a Piper's rain cape. When I was frustrated in my search for the real deal, I posted on local Bozeman Social Media a request to see one, and a local piper met me in a parking lot to show me his. He was FAR more "substantial" than I in size, and even when I draped it over my MUCH smaller corpus it just looked like an enormous plastic tarp.

I have no idea whether the event app will provide useful weather or event updates ON parade day. One other development is that it now appears we're likely to have probably VERY large competition for transit before and after the event from the (to me VERY welcome) national day of protest which will be just a few blocks away from the parade in Bryant Park at times overlapping with the parade.

**RGM1** · 30th March 25, 07:43 AM

Oh great a bunch of grumpy scots in the middle of a large and noisy protest. What could go wrong!

**RGM1** · 7th April 25, 04:58 AM

Originally Posted by Jock Scot

Why make life complicated? Leave the SD at home, it really is no big deal.: wink:

Security at Carnegie Hall was going to extra effort to search hose. They were appreciative that I left mine at home. Weren't sure what to make of my comment that point of it being visible was that you were amongt friends and maybe a few were just hidden away.