Ghillie brogues - why the dislike and resentment..?

[JPS]

About the bonnets, what I haven't posted are the photos from all those years of the crowd of competing solo pipers (as opposed to a Pipe Band) marching in, and those also exclusively show Balmoral bonnets up till around 1980 when a smattering of Glengarries start to appear.

Also the pipers, like the Stewards, are all in tweed jackets till one piper appears in a black Argyll around 1980.

It always strikes me as odd how few people in the piping community realise how recent the black Argyll + Glengarry + Ghillie kit is.

(I guess it shows how old I am, to regard the 1980s as 'recent'!)

Here's an old video of the Glenfinnan Piping Competition that illustrates this well. There's also a decent survey of footwear here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThNNSd3Xf5o