Your perfect summer kilt outfit?

[OC Richard]

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.