Phoenix Highland Games 1980s

[george7]

Actually, there is a huge difference.

29 years ago, people were on average slimmer than today's.

Most people on these photos is slim or average built, as opposed to nowadays where most people are overweight.

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WHOA! You're right. Looking at there pictures, people are much slimmer.

[Chas]

I like the way photographs of that time have aged. Certain colours become more vibrant and others get washed out. It really fixes a picture in time.

It is also interesting to see what pictures were thought to be important at the time. Photography was never a 'cheap' pastime in those days, so every shot had to be a good one.

Regards

Chas

[Galician]

WHOA! You're right. Looking at there pictures, people are much slimmer.

Well, you didn't have a hamburger chain on every block back then. Everything served was home cooking, for better--and, yes, sometimes for worse.

[JRB]

Cool pics. Is it just me or has has the length that the average gentleman wears his kilt changed by a couple of inches since the mid 80s? In your pics it looks like the kilts fall at the top of the knee (the historically correct length). From my experience at highland games in the past few years, kilts more often fall below the knee. I wonder of it's just a fashion trend that will change over time like all trends.

[M. A. C. Newsome]

Cool pics. Is it just me or has has the length that the average gentleman wears his kilt changed by a couple of inches since the mid 80s? In your pics it looks like the kilts fall at the top of the knee (the historically correct length). From my experience at highland games in the past few years, kilts more often fall below the knee. I wonder of it's just a fashion trend that will change over time like all trends.

All those guys who wore their kilts above the knee in the 80's are now twenty years older and twenty pounds heavier. Now those same kilts have to be worn somewhat, er... lower on the waist than when they were first made, and consequently fall below the knee. :-)

In all seriousness, though, a lot of the kilts that I see at Highland Games that are below the knee are also being worn much too low on the waist. They generally look like they fit properly at one time, but the wearer has gained weight, meaning the kilt will no longer fit at his proper waist, so he has to wear it low on the hips to get it to fit. In other words, the kilts were not bought intentionally to be below the knee, they just ended up that way over time.

[dfmacliam]

I was thinking the same thing, the kilt is timeless.. I bet we could go back even further and see that things remain the same...

[george7]

Looking for a pic of a sign for another thread ran across photos I took at a Phoenix, Arizona Highand Games sometime back in the 1980s. Would guess they're about 25 years old. Not old enough for Vintage. Kind of shows how things don't change - that's one definition of Tradition.

Here are some dancers.


Maybe our dance experts can identify the dances.

It's the Irish Washerwoman.

I think it's great that there was some normalcy in the 1980's. That somebody, somewhere was not wearing a denim jacket or raspberry beret. I know ALL ABOUT the 80's, I've seen Back to the Future.

[Arizona Scot]

Ron great pics, looking at your stuff of the valley reminds me of home.