Perhaps a little odd, but beautifully turned out

[OC Richard]

In general well turned-out, but I would have them pay more attention to their hose-tops worn with spats. The pattern stops at one point and the hose become marl, and they shouldn't be pulled up high enough for the marl portion to be seen.

Usually with hose-tops the end-point of the pattern is obvious and that's the point which should meet the top of the spats.

They should figure out which portion of the hose is the front centre-point and all have the same number of diamonds showing.

Here they are, in closeup, hosetops all ahoo



The other slightly odd-looking thing is the way they must wear their feather bonnets pushed back in order to have a portion of their forehead visible; it's an understandable accommodation, but nevertheless different than the way things were traditionally done in Scotland.

There's a longstanding peeve of mine about Full Dress bands having the drummers and Drum Major wear the piper's wide black leather crossbelt and waistbelt. These have been, since introduced into the army in the 1840s, for pipers only. The drummers and Drum Major should wear narrower white waistbelts, and the Drum Major (if he so chooses) a white sword belt with single sword belt plate.