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[OC Richard]

I cannot imagine ANYWHERE one would wear what's in OC Richard's picture except for some sort of re-enactment...

Exactly, and that is what the event I was piping for, a Renaissance banquet, with everybody in Renaissance costume.

Modern Highland clothing would have been unacceptable.

Going forward into the early 18th century we have the first clear depiction of a Highland piper, and of Highland bagpipes.

I've always wanted a reproduction of this set of pipes! But AFAIK no pipe-maker has done such.

So this would have been the most appropriate piper-specific costume to wear.



This is the closest-looking surviving Highland bagpipe



This set, which sat for many years in the window of the Glen shop, had the date "1409" on it, but is assumed to have been a Victorian fake.