Kilt with blue patrol jacket?

[OC Richard]

About Canadian, or other Dominions, traditions I know nothing except what I've read in Barnes, published in the early 1950s.

In the British military Patrol jackets were repeatedly banned by regulations but were exceptionally popular with officers, who purchased their uniforms privately.

Officers had numerous forms of dress as can be seen here. Generally officers were mounted in the old days and only wore kilts with a couple orders of dress. Blue Patrols were worn with trews as you see.



So yes I've seen modern army pipers wearing Blue Patrols with kilts, keeping in mind that the ones I've seen have generally been Pipe Majors of officer rank.

Here is Captain Gavin Stoddart.



Note that in certain modes of dress officers wore dirks with Patrols, which however were worn without waistbelts, the dirk being suspended by internal means.

There's a thing in the Victorian Highland regiments, and perhaps persisting today, where senior sergeants' uniforms follow officers' patterns in some ways. Since Pipe Majors can vary in rank, I think in some cases the Pipe Majors seen wearing Blue Patrols are below officer rank.