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[MacCathail]

Thanks for that well-worded summation.

But when it comes to non-Highland Dress locals here are often ludicrously underdressed for events. As a piper I attend more weddings and funerals than most people, and always there's at least one guy wearing board shorts, zorries, and a t-shirt. (Sometimes there's an Aloha Shirt thrown over the t-shirt to make it dressier.)

As another Southern California piper, I assure you he's not exaggerating in the least. I can't tell you how how many funerals I've played for where the funeral director and I are the only two men with neckties. Sometimes the funeral director is a woman and it's only me.

Sometimes I swear well-dressed around here means a clean T-shirt. Formal is one with no obscenities on it. (And for those who wonder, that last is indeed an exaggeration. Not as much of an exaggeration as I wish it was, but still an exaggeration.)

-John-