Fly Plaid at Burns Supper?

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While a common theme in Burns’s work is a celebration of Scottish identity, as a lowlander who lived from 1759 to 1796, highland dress just was’t part of his conception of Scottishness.

Thanks SO much for that, and for the link to the Alexandria Burns Club website, wherein we can see descriptions of people who commemorated Burns's life and work as long as 140 years ago and photos of people so doing today in the very part of Scotland where he lived. The attendees (? exclusively male) tend to be dressed as men might dress today for a gentlemen's business club luncheon.

While some tartan is in evidence, it's principally on pipers, and among guests seemingly more often in trews or waistcoats than in kilts, though kilted guests ARE present, some chosen for recitation roles.

Bottom line for me is that I shouldn't worry about offending anyone more knowledgeable than I so long as I don't look like I just stepped off a parade route where I was drum major, and whatever I wear, there won't be any feathers protruding from whatever hat I wear (and I hope I haven't ruffled any with this post).