scottish screen archive footage "a must see"

[Alan H]

I quite enjoyed the 3-4 other Highland Games videos/films on the site. Something I noticed in the flms I looked at from the 1940's and 1950's when of course everything was so much better and gentlemen dressed properly, as opposed to nowadays when we're all just a bunch of sloppy hooligans with no taste, breeding or decency, ruined by Creeping Casual....


In the 1959 Agricultural Show film, I saw one tartan skirt, possibly one kilt with a sporran possibly down at knee level, and certainly one boy with a VERY long kilt AND that kilt was a solid color. That or the kilt was incredibly high-waisted. Every single adult male in the film was wearing trousers.

In 1950 at the Games the ONLY people wearing kilts were the pipers, dancers and Heavy Athletes. In 1943 at the Braemar Highland Games...same thing. the ONLY people wearing kilts were the pipers, dancers and Heavy Athletes.

Videos of the Fourth Cameron Highlanders showed them in kilts in 1938, solid color (Hodden Gray??) . Other videos of military units might, or as in the case of the Glagow Squadron pilots...might not show them in kilts. In fact, in film after film taken from the 1930's 1940's and 1950's on that archive, and I looked at about a dozen...there isn't a single adult male, I did not spot ONE, for sure....that was shown wearing a kilt unless they were in a pipe band, dancing, or competing in the Games or in the military. NOT ONE.

IN FACT...it appears that the Scottish Gentleman in the 1920's 1930's 1940's and 1950's wore a tweed hat and a jacket, vest and trousers when he was out in public, much like his British and American counterparts....though I thoroughly enjoyed seeing one of the Chiefs ( I think) in the 1950 Games video, who was wearing johdpurs. The Chief wore johdpurs in 1950!!!

Look, I ain't buyin' a pair, forget it!