Livery coloured cockade on bonnet

[creagdhubh]

I have been thinking about this and I have to say what Kyle sees is not what I see on a day to day basis. So I wonder if this is a diaspora thing on show at the Clan gathering?

I think it is, Jock. At least from my own personal experience and perspective in regards to the Clan Macpherson. I have never seen a Macpherson from Scotland, let alone the Highlands (Newtonmore and Kingussie), wearing anthing but a black cockade, or the matching, self-coloured cockade that comes standard with the lighter coloured bonnets such as Lovat blue, Lovat green, fawn, etc. Now, I'm certainly not saying that a cockade in white (Jacobite), the livery colours of your Chief, or perhaps in your own if you are armigerous, is incorrect, not in the slightest! All I am simply saying is that I have only seen it done by fellow Macphersons that are from America and not Scotland.