Plaid Brooches

[Father Bill]

[QUOTE=Katia;1369135]

In the U.S. and Canada, we are under SOBHD and follow the SOBHD dress code (with the U.S. falling further under governing body FUSTA, and in Canada ScotDance). There's another governing body, SOHDA, but it's much smaller, I've not known anyone who dances under it, and SOBHD dancers are prohibited from dancing in SOHDA competitions (I don't think SOHDA has such restrictions, though). I believe SOHDA essentially uses the same costumes as SOBHD.

I've never seen a male wear fly plaid; it's optional, not required, and I can't see any reason anyone would want to bother with it.

New Zealand is a completely different animal, for reasons I've never known, actually. Dances, costumes, and steps are different, though of course there are many similarities. Females wear a bonnet with the kilt, and the female jig costume, at least, is nothing like in the SOBHD dress code. I've never seen a New Zealand dress code, so I don't know everything it entails; all I know is what I've seen in photos, a video or two, and a time when my dance school did a hornpipe using NZ steps for a show. I'm not certain how the SOBHD ties in in NZ.

Marvellous. Now would you be so kind as to translate for those of us who don't speak acronym?