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My favorite Highland dress pet peeves
Here are a few of my favorite Highland dress pet peeves that I often see at Scottish Events and Highland games... Please feel free to express your own pet peeves!
1.) Kilt Shirts aka Jacobite shirts -
2.) Men wearing a multitude of lapel pins on their bonnet -
3.) Men wearing their bonnets indoors -
4.) Men wearing their flashes wrong, e.g., around on the backside of their calf - also droopy kilt hose!
5.) kilts worn too long, droopy kilts...usually done deliberately, the offender is usually someone under 20. Also, men wearing their kilts down on their hips like blue jeans! Even my kilt will drop a bit after long day at the games or an evening of Scottish country dancing...but come on guys!...pull the kilts UP where they belong! Especially you CANADIANS! (Tom muttering under his breath, Canadians tend to wear their kilts longer than anyone else.)(Love Thompson's term for this, "Trollopy kilts"!)
6.) utilikilts and other facsimiles worn is if they are traditional Scottish National attire...
7.) wearing the wrong level of formality to an event OR mixing items of formality...example: a Prince Charlie coatee worn with daywear...or mistaking "casual" with "daywear" (they are not the same!) One would not generally wear sneakers with a suit or slacks and a sportcoat so why wear sneakers with daywear?
8.) Wearing dirks, swords, etc. to Highland games or other Scottish events! The only item of this nature that is, or should be, worn is the sgian dubh. Dirks and swords are OK for the parade of the tartans or display, but I'd personally rather see the pageantry of flags and banners! (Dirks are appropriate for very dressy formal evening wear. I don't really recommend them because you really have to lay them aside for any sort of vigorous dancing. Same with plaids!) Heck, I saw a man wear a sword to a recent Kirking of the Tartan!
9.) People who get bent out of shape when they see a man in a kilt wearing a sports coat! I honestly do not have a problem with this!
10.) Men wearing ladies tartan sashes! Come on! You KNOW you have seen this at least once! :-D
11.) The cost of kilts and accouterments! One can only hope for the good old days when the dollar was stronger!
12.) Finding a hole in a pair of $200+ Argyll Kilt hose RIGHT before an event! @#*&$$$!!!^^*)@(
13.) People who come up to you and say, "I LUV YOUR COSTUME!" I usually have to bite my tongue not to come up with a Gordon Ramsay reply!
14.) Did I mention that I HATE kilt shirts!
15.) Yes, Indeed, I loath kilt shirts...If there was anything I could do to contribute to Scottish National Dress, it would be the total elimination of the kilt shirt! No Scottish supplier, kilt maker, etc. would dream of carrying them and no self-respecting man would even consider wearing one! Wake up and retire yours to the rag pile!
16.) Men who do not know when to move their sporrans! When a gentleman is dressed in Highland attire and dances with a lady (cheek to cheek), he should move the sporran to his left hip. He should also do this when sitting down to dinner.
17.) Wearing the sgian dubh with the sheath portion in the hose with the whole handle sticking out.
18.) If I hear the old worn out, "What do are you wearing under your kilt" question one more time I can't promise I won't go "Ramsay" on them!
19.) There is some question regarding the wearing of tartan ties with the kilt. In my opinion, a tie should be left up to the man's choice, with the only rule being the constraint of good taste.
20.) Wearing kilt belts with a waistcoat....
21.) Women (who are not a part of a pipeband) wearing men's Highland attire.
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"Highland Cathedral" -- played by The Baton Rouge Pipes and Drums of the Caledo
There is a land far from this distant shore
Where heather grows and Highland Eagles soar
There is a land that will live ever more
Deep in my heart, my Bonnie Scotland
Though I serve so far away
I still see your streams, cities and dreams
I can`t wait until the day
When I`ll come home once more
So Lord keep me from the harm of war
Through all the dangers and the battles roar
Keep me safe until I`m home once more
Home to my own in Bonnie Scotland
"Highland Cathedral" -- played by The Baton Rouge Pipes and Drums of the Caledonian Society
I simply love this tune. This band played this tune at the funeral of a dear friend Miller Dial in 2005.
This performance was at the Kirking of the Tartans, September 16, 2007, hosted by the Broadmoor Presbyterian Church, the St. Andrew Society of Baton Rouge, the Caledonian Society of Baton Rouge and the British Club. The band is under the direction of Pipe Major Stan Masinter and Drum Major David Goldsmith.
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There is a land far from this distant shore
Where heather grows and Highland Eagles soar
There is a land that will live ever more
Deep in my heart, my Bonnie Scotland
Though I serve so far away
I still see your streams, cities and dreams
I can`t wait until the day
When I`ll come home once more
So Lord keep me from the harm of war
Through all the dangers and the battles roar
Keep me safe until I`m home once more
Home to my own in Bonnie Scotland
Highland dress quote
"The Highland dress is essentially a 'free' dress -- that is to say, a man's taste and circumstances must alone be permitted to decide when and where and how he should wear it... I presume to dictate to no man what he shall eat or drink or wherewithal he shall be clothed." -- Stuart Ruaidri Erskine, The Kilt & How to Wear It, 1901.
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