wearing the military style kilt

[OC Richard]

Very interesting! Thanks for the info.

Also, when the Pipes & Drums of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders were on their 1993 USA tour at least two of the pipers had beards, the Pipe Major (as one might expect) and one of the pipers, a short fellow with a shaved head and a bright ginger beard. (There are two photos of this fellow in the tour programme, but unfortunately not a single photo which shows the entire pipe corps.)

I had long heard that it was traditional for the Pipe Major of the Camerons to be bearded, and this evidently has carried onto The Highlanders, but I've seen modern Pipe Majors of The Black Watch and the Argylls with beards too.