Slightly confused.

[OC Richard]

There is a pipe band in Denver that leaves the uniform open for it's women...

That's odd... the very word "uniform" means "one form" so it's really an oxymoron to leave the uniform open. I guess a band like that couldn't really be said to possess a "uniform".

By the way PM Evan MacRae won the Gold Medal at Oban that same summer, a few weeks after that photo was taken. I believe he was the oldest person to win the Gold.

Here's another photo of PM MacRae taken at that same piping school. I don't remember the name of the other guy. That guy lived in Spokane at the time as I recall, but had lived in the Los Angeles area back in the 1940's and was the piper in those old Shirley Temple movies etc, if I remember correctly.



Here's the often-reproduced photo of PM Evan MacRae as PM of the Queens Own Cameron Highlanders. It must have been taken in the period from around the end of WWII up to 1960 due to the fact that the QOCH switched from Cameron of Erracht kilts to Royal Stuart kilts in the immediate postwar period, and the QOCH was amalgamated with the Seaforth Highlanders to form the Queens Own Highlanders around 1960. By the way, the Pipe Major of the Cameron Highlanders was required by tradition to wear a full beard, the only beard in the Scottish regiments save for pioneers. The photo shows another interesting facet of the Cameron uniform: it was the only Highland regiment in which the pipers wore full hose with buckled brogues (instead of spats) for most orders of dress.



And here's another photo of a "ladies pipe band".