Quote Originally Posted by OC Richard View Post
the standard attitude that pipe band people have towards the kilt: it's something you are required to wear when you play, and is therefore somewhat resented and disliked.
I can see why piper's dress in the hot sun wouldn't be fun. To me this simply illustrates something so obvious in this forum - that traditional highland dress of a formal sort never fully adapted to the different climate of the New Worlds. Much as I acknowledge that the Highlanders among us own the tradition, without adaptation to time and place, there will always be discordancies like you mention and we see in this forum.

Are there other reasons for the resentment and dislike beyond comfort? Does the piper's outfit seem too much of a costume for public consumption?