wearing the military style kilt

[OC Richard]

Here I was today out at a thing...



I don't know what the regulations were (or if it was a thing of regimental unwritten rules) but I've see numerous photos of WWII pipers wearing their Full Dress waistbelts with Battle Dress jackets. However they don't seem to wear the crossbelt or sergeant sash with Battle Dress, from what I've seen, even when they're wearing spats, coloured hose-tops, Full Dress sporrans, etc.

Actually all sorts of things are seen, such as wearing coloured hose-tops with puttees, wearing Full Dress sporrans with khaki hose and puttees, and every other combination one could think of.

(The guy in the photo above was an actual paratrooper... and I'm an actual piper...)

[OC Richard]

Black Watch shirt sleeve order dress with kilt. TOS, red hackle, no tartan patch, Shirt sleeves rolled above the elbow, one hand's width,no undergarment under the shirt shall be visible, kilt worn around the waist, (it is quite a few decades since the kilt was worn high.) Leather sporran, Lovat hoses, red flashes, black boots (low) with puttees.

In addition to that order, I have a photo (from the 1990s) captioned

At Headquarters Joint Forces Hong Kong, 1 BW mount a guard in No. 2 Shirt Sleeve Order (Review Order)

The enlisted men are all wearing short-sleeved light khaki shirts, kilts, horsehair sporrans, coloured hose-tops, spats, white waistbelts, and blue bonnets with hackles.

The officer is wearing a long-sleeved shirt with sleeves rolled up, and a Sam Browne belt, but otherwise as the men.

Likewise with the No. 2 Dress jacket one see two modes often worn, one with Lovat hose, low boots, and leather sporran, the other with coloured hose-tops, spats, and horsehair sporran.

Pipers can be seen wearing Glengarries with Shirtsleeve Order, No. 2 Dress, and No. 1 Dress.