Tartan Day in Balboa Park, San Diego

[OC Richard]

I just looked up House of Scotland Pipe Band, very impressive!

https://www.houseofscotland.org/pipe-band.html

A few familiar faces (the older folks) but also a great contingent of young players so the future is bright.

Isn't that the San Diego tartan? I've seen it up close, a kilt beautifully pleated to the stripe, it's a striking tartan.

As best I recall...we're talking 50 years ago...they were, at that time, the Loud MacLeod pipe band, wearing the yellow Allen Brothers "MacLeod" tartan.

[FossilHunter]

I'm jealous. "Permitted" to wear club ties that would sport decorating embroidery of a Bantam Rooster or an English Bulldog by the initials that can follow my name (issued by stodgy New England educational institutions), and being informed by Jock that THAT was what I should aspire to, I went in search for same and discovered that NEITHER of those institutions' souvenir collections available at their bookstores even BOTHERS to sell ANY neckties any more. Maybe it's emblematic of the frailty and transitory nature of American culture.

Here is my official university tie with the pattern of the university’s athletic program logo. Moving to the right is a red and black tie I purchased as an unofficial university tie (though it appears rather orange in this light). Then I have a nice club style tie I purchased from the Fort George website a few years ago.

I will post a second tie photo.

[FossilHunter]

Here are some official BSA ties I’ve collected that fit the British style. Two are Eagle Scout ties (club and striped) and the one in the center is a leader tie. I suspect the middle tie is probably similar to a regimental tie in the UK (though I haven’t confirmed that) so I probably wouldn’t wear it there but it’s an official BSA tie (you can tell from the logo near the bottom) so I have no qualms about wearing it in the US.