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.
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