This is a most entertaining thread! The photos each of you have posted are quite fabulous! By the way, while my own personal taste is for diced or tartan hose for evening wear, I will defend Panache's right to his opinion until death, or serious inconvenience, which ever comes first.
"Before two notes of the theme were played, Colin knew it was Patrick Mor MacCrimmon's 'Lament for the Children'...Sad seven times--ah, Patrick MacCrimmon of the seven dead sons....'It's a hard tune, that', said old Angus. Hard on the piper; hard on them all; hard on the world." Butcher's Broom, by Neil Gunn, 1994 Walker & Co, NY, p. 397-8.
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