Short Sleeves

[ShaunMaxwell]

Tobus:

The Cabela's safari shirts are not vented, and are a 65/35 poly/cotton blend, but they are a good deal more breathable and comfortable than you'd think. (Full disclosure: I ALWAYS wear a white cotton undershirt with these!) The shirt I sometimes wear that you're thinking of is a 5.11 tactical shirt that I purchased some years ago, as seen in another "blast from the past" photo, this one from Salado (look at those long garter ties! YIKES!):



The cotton 5.11 shirt is quite a bit heavier, and holds up pretty well if sufficiently ironed (though the map pockets/extra velcro make it a bit more challenging to iron), though perhaps not as well as the Cabela's shirt, which are very easy to iron and stay sharp looking no matter what. I have one 5.11, but a closet full of the Cabela's in various shades.

Looks like the current version of the 5.11 can be found here:

http://www.511tactical.com/taclite-p...eve-shirt.html

[MacCathail]

15 years ago or more the Scots Guards pipe band was out here in California and competed at the Pleasanton games. The temperature was at least in the high 90s. . . may even have been 100+. Not unusual for Pleasanton. They ditched the doublets and competed in polo shirts. Royal Stuart kilts to be sure, but polo shirts from the waist up. Being slightly less traditional beats the heck out of being face down on the grass from heat stroke. (IIRC, they won their grade, too.)

Cheers,

-John-

[OC Richard]

Yes I saw them there!

The army has always been practical with such things, having Shirtsleeve Order for hot weather. The polo shirts probably because it was a civilian competition.

Shaun I love that outfit! So traditional AND practical.

[Blupiper]

I'm with Tobus on favoring the two-pocketed variety of short sleeve shirts for warm weather wear with a kilt, as in this photo taken a few years ago at the oh so muddy Grandfather Mountain games:



I tend to get them from Cabela's, and they just happen to be on sale now, if this is the type of thing you're looking for.

http://www.cabelas.com/product/cloth...lar/749218.uts

Great picture. Hello Kitty wellies, I love them. I think in North America and particularly the West, we see more extreme heat (with humidity in the East) than they do in those places where the traditional attire originated. I second Richard's contention about not wanting to be face-down from the heat. Polos and t-shirts are great for Games in August. Cotton, comfy and, as evidenced, you can represent your clan. My jury is still out on pipebands with waistcoats and short-sleeved shirts. Maybe if each came with a plastic pocket protector?

JMB

[derosa]

I've always thought that polos would look fine with the kilt, just don't really own any as they don't fit my personal style. Only have one which was free from Kryptonite bicycle locks and is about 20 years old at this point. Also fully agree with the button up short-sleeve shirt as a great way to go, though I would also find the waistcoat and short-sleeve to be an odd look. We were hitting the high 80s last sunday and as it was youth Sunday meaning I was the officiant mostly in appearance I could dress down which meant short-sleeve and certainly no vest.

[Panache]

For short sleeved shirts I prefer a safari / hiking style one, but I still wear polos when appropriate



Cheers

Jamie

[Jock Scot]

Short-sleeved shirts in general are not "traditional" in the Highlands because it seldom gets warm enough there to warrant such. Those of us in warmer climes have to make reasonable changes to our wardrobe.

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Exactly so, it is rarely warm enough to go without a jacket over here, so long sleeved shirts do give us an option to roll up the sleeves, should the temperature ever get into the 80's for an hour or so. Personally, I cannot see anything wrong with a polo shirt in non Scottish hot weather, although minus those dreadful logo things would help the look no end in my book.

[Panache]

... Personally, I cannot see anything wrong with a polo shirt in non Scottish hot weather, although minus those dreadful logo things would help the look no end in my book.

Well since the two polo shirts I have with logos are "Red Thistle Dancers" and "UMS Tiger Band" (which I was with as a chaperone in the photo above) I'd have to disagree about that "dreadful" part

Cheers

Jamie

[MNlad]

Warm weather usually finds me wearing a Columbia fishing shirt with the open mesh lined back. I was fortunate enough to find some in cotton blend a few years back and stockpiled several. (I also find today's synthetic ones feel clammy by comparison.) For slightly cooler weather I'm a big fan of the older tactical shirts that were offered by Woolrich, Eotac and 5.11. These were the shirts that had the zippered document pockets behind the breast pockets. Just can't have enough extra pockets with a kilt.

[OC Richard]

The army's solution to warm weather kilting, in this case rolled up long sleeves, worn by the Drum Major of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders. (They have another shirtsleeve order with long selfcoloured hose and plain leather Day sporran.)



In WWII, a Highland Division piper (7th Black Watch) wearing short sleeves.



Now somebody might ask "what does this have to do with civilian Highland Dress?" to which I would say that military and civilian Highland Dress has always cross-influenced each other. Every item of military Highland Dress started out as civilian wear, and in turn a number of military things have later been re-borrowed by civilians.