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[Janner52]

WONDERFUL photos! Are the walls of your house festooned with some of the best of these? I can almost hear the drummers cheering in "Black Bear" which I find just absolutely thrilling. (It looks as though ALL the drummers are in darker tartan kilts; curious that they wear different COLOR ( OK, "coloured") doublets in full dress, but are not differentiated above the waist for their hot weather uniforms.

The khaki shirts are a summer version No 2 dress, where a khaki tunic would otherwise be worn or barrack dress where a pullover (sweater) is worn. There is no ceremonial summer dress for wear in the uk. There is a tradition in the Royal Regiment of Scotland that officers and warrant officers wear blue shirts in summer dress.
Apparently this tradition was inherited from the Royal Highland Fusiliers. It has now filtered down to include all members of the pipes and drums.

[OC Richard]

On the British army all uniforms must be returned to the quartermaster on discharge. A beret, or appropriate regimental headdress is worn with civilian clothes for military occasions.

Thanks for the information!

I don't know the US military practice, beyond having a friend who used to be a musician in the US Marine Corps.

There are two elite Marine Corps bands that I know of, the President's Own and the Commandant's Own.

Both wear the old traditional "reversed colours" of military musicians, for them meaning red tunics.

My friend played in the Commandant's Own. He told me that when they were going to do a Full Dress performance, wearing the ornate red tunics, these arrived at the performance site on hangers in storage bags and were issued to the musicians when they were dressing for the performance.

After the performance they were handed back in, put back in storage, and taken away.

I'm guessing something like that happens in the British army with the extremely expensive Guards tunics and bearskins.

[Janner52]

No Richard the British solders are responsible for storage and cleaning of their own ceremonial uniforms. Not sure exactly how that works for regiments like the Household Cavary where they have large amounts of uniform. They may have some kind of storage central space.