As a sort of update, I just spent last weekend at our largest local Games, at Costa Mesa.

A number of bands came down from Canada.

As you can see, the White Hose Era is dead, as far as pipe bands go at least.

But bands still are tending to dress alike. They've abandoned white hose and white shirts en masse as you can see, but so many wear blue shirts that there's hardly more variety than before.

Grade One was won on Saturday by our local Los Angeles Scottish (muted Drummond of Perth kilts)



down from Canada in Grade One were Alberta Caledonia and Triumph Street, seen here:



If you don't get your kilt pleated like the other guys, you don't get to play!



(just kidding... the guy in the foreground is with Edmonton & District, which wears the same uniform.)

Here's Edmonton, then James Coyne Memorial (in an Irish county tartan), then Kevin Blandford Memorial, then Robert Malcolm Memorial (from British Columbia). Those shirts the Blandfords wear are quite intense.









Judges' dress is interesting. It's not pipe band dress per se, because judges usually avoid wearing the uniform of the band they play in, if they indeed still play in one. Here's Canadian judge Jamie Troy. Interesting sporran, the cantle of a Gordon Highlanders sporran stuck on a leather Day sporran: