untraditional traditions

[macwilkin]

I think you all need to remember that we don't suffer, in Scotland, the same sort of humidity and heat that many of you experience. If it gets warm in Scotland, I am not sure it could ever be described as hot, by some of your definitions! The THCD would be long shirt sleeves with sleeves rolled up, tie off and top button of the shirt undone. Hose would be up to traditional height and black brogues would still be worn as would kilt belt and sporran. In many ways you chaps in your type of weather have already started to make your own traditions.

And I would add to Jock's post that it's not just the residents of the USA that are doing so, but also those in other warmer climes, such as the Australians, etc. In Australia, for example, many pipe bands in the summer have done away with the traditional headgear and replaced with straw, wide-brimmed hats for protection against the sun, just as Highlanders adopted the colonial slouch hat in South Africa during the Boer War, or "Red Sea Rig" as worn by RM, RN and Army Officers for mess dress "East of Suez".

T.

[MacBean]

traditional headgear ...replaced with straw, wide-brimmed hats for protection against the sun

Pictures? I'd like to see how that looks!

[Bugbear]

Pictures? I'd like to see how that looks!

Ya, that's basically what Jock suggested to me in the Panama hat. I only had a straw hat, sounds a bit like Todd's description, and Jock seemed to be just fine with my picture. I was wearing a polo shirt.

I've seen MOR post that he wears a Panama hat, too, so I guess it's just fine to the Scottish eye.

My dad is a genuine "cactus kicker" from "Preskitt" and wears neither Western jackets, bolo ties or even a cowboy hat.

Both of my grandfathers wor bolo ties from time to time, but it's the Western shirts that really stood out.

[ThistleDown]

Ya, that's basically what Jock suggested to me in the Panama hat. I only had a straw hat, sounds a bit like Todd's description, and Jock seemed to be just fine with my picture. I was wearing a polo shirt.

I've seen MOR post that he wears a Panama hat, too, so I guess it's just fine to the Scottish eye.





Both of my grandfathers wor bolo ties from time to time, but it's the Western shirts that really stood out.

No, the Panama hat does not have universal Scottish appeal. Nor does the polo shirt. You wished to wear them with Highland attire, Ted, and some of us we agreed it was acceptable for whatever reasons. Now that you have rejected Highland dress you must needs choose your head dress to suit whatever else you are wearing.

What are you wearing these days?

[Bugbear]

No, the Panama hat does not have universal Scottish appeal. Nor does the polo shirt. You wished to wear them with Highland attire, Ted, and some of us wanted you to be comfortable so we agreed it was acceptable. Now that you have rejected Highland dress you must needs choose your head dress to suit whatever else you are wearing.

What are you wearing these days?

All the better.

And I am most often wearing overalls to work in mud, soil and compost now a days; truely cactus kicking.

* I should say, "literally kicking cactus," rather than "truly," as I grow prickly pears and other cacti.

[Bugbear]

Oddly, Tod, many of the ranchers in New Mexico when I was growing up, wore the shirts with the two brest pockets, usually pearl looking buttons, and a pattern or design of some sort, no wild colors. It seemed pretty common.

Don't see how that type of shirt would go well with a kilt.


* and since I no longer wear kilts, I will bow out of the discussion.