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

[OC Richard]

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.