Your perfect summer kilt outfit?

**OC Richard** · 21st May 25, 03:55 PM

Originally Posted by spr0k3t

I know in SoCal they dropped the uniform requirement for temps tipping above the 90s.

Thanks I hadn't heard that.

Is that a WUSPBA thing or a particular Games?

I know a few years before COVID at the Pleasanton Games it hit 114f (46c) and the judges told all the Pipe Bands that they were waiving the uniform requirement. For around 20 years now it's been standard worldwide for bands to wear neckties and waistcoats with their kilts (jackets were simply too hot for much of the world).

I missed Pleasanton that year. All the photos and videos I've seen show the bands wearing kilts (thought they'd been specifically told they didn't have to) but neckties and waistcoats were replaced, by some bands, with golf shirts and t-shirts.

There's an interesting quirk which distinguishes the RSPBA dress rules and the rules of the North American PBA's I've seen: the American rules require Highland Dress while the Scottish rules only require "matching dress".

So no dispensation would be required in Scotland for a band to show up in Bermuda shorts and t-shirts, as long as they all matched. It's not uncommon to see bands compete in trousers there, while they would require a dispensation here or get DQ'd.

**OC Richard** · 21st May 25, 04:04 PM

This was news in the Pipe Band world, a Grade One band announcing that going forward they're going to compete in polo shirts

https://www.pipesdrums.com/article/7...k-polo-shirts/

**spr0k3t** · 21st May 25, 07:18 PM

Originally Posted by OC Richard

Thanks I hadn't heard that.

Is that a WUSPBA thing or a particular Games?

I know a few years before COVID at the Pleasanton Games it hit 114f (46c) and the judges told all the Pipe Bands that they were waiving the uniform requirement. For around 20 years now it's been standard worldwide for bands to wear neckties and waistcoats with their kilts (jackets were simply too hot for much of the world).

This sounds like the information I read about... but I missed the specific detail of the temps when throwing out the dart. So, thanks for clarifying this.

**Canadian Vet** · 22nd May 25, 06:18 AM

It got very hot at the Maxville games last year. We all kept our kilts but the hot hose and the rest of the Scottish rig disappeared. Fancy shoes were replaced by Birkenstocks.
The Scots are a practical people, after all.