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[PiperPadre]

What is "TCHD" for those not familiar with all of the TLAs and FLAs?

Traditional civilian Highland dress.

See you at the Waukesha Games?

[geomick]

thanks

I will be there all 3 days. Supposed to be mid-70s for the weekend. Either Saturday or Sunday will be the Glen Affric Great Kilt. Planning to be in the pub tent Saturday for the last two bands (Old Goat Skiffle Band and Radiation).

[PiperPadre]

I'll be there for the solos on the morning of Saturday. That's all I usually do at Highland Games; compete, chat with the other competitors, get results by noon and go home.

[PiperPadre]

By the way, I'll be the piper in a Broad Red Urquhart (similar to Black Watch but has a red stripe) and brown gun check tweed jacket and waistcoat. I can't seem to figure out how to upload pics here. I was quite proud of myself (and even more surprised) once when I figured it out but have since forgotten the arcane ways of this technology.

[DCampbell16B]

That looks pretty good to me! Being a tad persnickety , yes, yes, I know, but --------------! Those flashes could be reduced in length by half.

Thanks, yes. Good point. I like the red, but the flashes are showing their age, and the hose tops don't turn down much more to cover the flashes (I do have other hose, just not what I had on then). I've been thinking for much too long about getting garters to tie by hand. But they cost money, and I have enough Scottish DNA to be stin --- thrifty. I'll be getting them before long, though, which will improve things.

[geomick]

I'll be there for the solos on the morning of Saturday. That's all I usually do at Highland Games; compete, chat with the other competitors, get results by noon and go home.

I'll try to stop by for the solo competition on Saturday. Makes that a good choice for great kilt day.

[User]

Thanks, yes. Good point. I like the red, but the flashes are showing their age, and the hose tops don't turn down much more to cover the flashes...

If you felt so inclined, you could fold the flashes over themselves to shorten them.

[Jock Scot]

If you felt so inclined, you could fold the flashes over themselves to shorten them.

Thats what I do. My assorted kilt/shooting hose have different lengths of turnover so its handy to roll up/down the "flash" part to get the most pleasing effect.

[OC Richard]

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I think pretty much TCHD. Open to suggestions.

Well done! That tweed ("moss"?) looks super with that kilt.

About flashes length, yours look perfectly fine to me.

As an aside, I've always as a matter of course turned the hose over at the garter, meaning that much of the length of the flash is hidden under the cuff. I suppose this practice dates back to when hose actually needed to be held up by the garter (prior to the hose themselves being elastic).

But now that hose don't really need garter support a strange (to me) custom has arisen among a lot of Pipe Band people: they wear the garter at the very bottom of the cuff so that the whole length of the garter is visible, as if it's their duty to expose the entire flash.

In any case flash length is like women's hem-lines, going up and down as fashion dictates.

Here's when flashes got their longest:

[Jock Scot]

Errrr ummmm, I really don't want to "rock the boat" here but THCD = Traditional Highland CIVILIAN dress. Military attire does not really apply here. Military Uniform regulations are really not applicable to civilian attire. We need to be careful.

Just saying.