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    Re: Badges, Patches & Pins for Your Tams, Caps, Hats & Kilts

    Quote Originally Posted by auld argonian View Post
    Tons of nice stuff but let's hope that those who buy any of it are entitled to wear them. I still don't get the idea of people who were not in a unit or branch wearing those insignia. Sorry, don't buy that "to honor ______" concept either.

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    *** and especially those who would wear the one for the Soviet Navy!

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    Re: Badges, Patches & Pins for Your Tams, Caps, Hats & Kilts

    I myself prefer simplicity with Highland Dress.

    Here's an example of how I dressed last year at a Burns Supper I piped at



    and at an outdoor wedding a few years ago (that's the Pacific Ocean in the background)



    and at a funeral



    Save for the clan badge on my Glengarry, I have no pins of any sort, not even a kilt pin. I don't like the idea of punching holes in a $500 kilt!

    Do whatever you like, but I myself think "less is more".

    About the wearing of military capbadges by civilians, it used to be very common for civilian pipe bands to wear military-style uniforms complete with military capbadges and collardogs. This hasn't ceased and a couple years ago a civilian Grade One pipe band (from Australia or New Zealand as I recall) competed at The Worlds wearing Cameron Highlanders capbadges.

    I myself wouldn't do that nowadays, but back in the early 1980s I played in a band which wore Full Dress based on the uniform of The Gordon Highlanders.
    Last edited by OC Richard; 25th January 12 at 06:35 AM.
    Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte

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