Short Sleeves

[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.