Wearing ex military issue and items

[TNScotsman]

Well said redleg! I've never understood people's fascination with wearing things to which they are not entitled, but everybody is different.

Keeping this on the subjects of kilts, at a kilted wedding I recently attended one of the bride's family members was properly done up in kilt and Argyll jacket. A veteran Air Force officer, he was wearing his miniature medals and insignia quite proudly on his civilian attire and I thought added nicely to the event. The British style probably would have been full-sized medals for daywear, but we're in the U.S. and, more important, he earned them and I think has some latitude in how he wants to wear them.

As one involved in some orders of chivalry, on one hand I somewhat regretted not being decked out with things, but that would have been quite inappropriate as members of the wedding party aren't supposed to attract more attention than the groom!