As I understand it, they may have got image consultants involved !
Is it not the case (on purpose) that the regiment doesn't have kilts for all ? I was told by an ex-Gordons piper with close connections to the RRS that kilts, archer-green doublets, sporrans etc are only issued to the one RRS battalion which is designated public duties battalion at a given time, similar to what the Guards do with each battalion taking turn as Public Duties Battalion and issued scarlet tunics, bearskins etc etc, while the other Guards battalions are stationed across the World. One completion of public duties assignment, the RRS battalion hands its dress uniforms back to stores.
As you know, the different battalions are differentiated at service/combat dress level by the coloured hackles in the ToS.
RSB = black (to represent the blackcock feather of Lowland regiments - possibly to remember the Cameronians but I doubt it as the Cameronians don't exist in any form at all nowadays other than as museum exhibits - pity)
RHF = white which goes back to the plume in their badged black raccoon skin cap they wore until 1914 - (since then only the D/M has worn the fur cap)
BW = scarlet - say no more
HLDRS = dark blue - inherited from the QOCH
A&SH = green, the colour associated most closely with the Argylls; green was the colour brought out on the pleats whereas the BW was the blue, green edges to the Argylls diced shoulder ID, green on the regimental tie. Yet in the late 19th-early 20th Centuries, the Argylls wore a white hackle in their pith helmets.
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