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    Quote Originally Posted by spr0k3t View Post
    I know in SoCal they dropped the uniform requirement for temps tipping above the 90s.
    Thanks I hadn't heard that.

    Is that a WUSPBA thing or a particular Games?

    I know a few years before COVID at the Pleasanton Games it hit 114f (46c) and the judges told all the Pipe Bands that they were waiving the uniform requirement. For around 20 years now it's been standard worldwide for bands to wear neckties and waistcoats with their kilts (jackets were simply too hot for much of the world).

    I missed Pleasanton that year. All the photos and videos I've seen show the bands wearing kilts (thought they'd been specifically told they didn't have to) but neckties and waistcoats were replaced, by some bands, with golf shirts and t-shirts.

    There's an interesting quirk which distinguishes the RSPBA dress rules and the rules of the North American PBA's I've seen: the American rules require Highland Dress while the Scottish rules only require "matching dress".

    So no dispensation would be required in Scotland for a band to show up in Bermuda shorts and t-shirts, as long as they all matched. It's not uncommon to see bands compete in trousers there, while they would require a dispensation here or get DQ'd.
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    This was news in the Pipe Band world, a Grade One band announcing that going forward they're going to compete in polo shirts

    https://www.pipesdrums.com/article/7...k-polo-shirts/
    Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte

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    Quote Originally Posted by OC Richard View Post
    Thanks I hadn't heard that.

    Is that a WUSPBA thing or a particular Games?

    I know a few years before COVID at the Pleasanton Games it hit 114f (46c) and the judges told all the Pipe Bands that they were waiving the uniform requirement. For around 20 years now it's been standard worldwide for bands to wear neckties and waistcoats with their kilts (jackets were simply too hot for much of the world).
    This sounds like the information I read about... but I missed the specific detail of the temps when throwing out the dart. So, thanks for clarifying this.

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    It got very hot at the Maxville games last year. We all kept our kilts but the hot hose and the rest of the Scottish rig disappeared. Fancy shoes were replaced by Birkenstocks.
    The Scots are a practical people, after all.

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    I tend to wear my kilts with a button-up shirt, usually short sleeved, and an optional wool sweater. The sweater is always and only wool - I can't be doing with fake sweaters as they aren't comfortable.
    Hose vary from thick kilt hose in winter, through knee high socks, both ribbed and flat knit, to minimal socks when it's warm.

    I like my 4yd 13oz wool kilts for their sheer style and colours, but I wear them sparingly.

    I have several 4/5yd polyviscose kilts that look great.

    And I have a couple of Sportkilt Hiking Kilts with velcro fastening, and which are made of some printed microfibre material. They are very lightweight, and drip dry perfectly after you get them wet: go swimming, rinse in the shower, hang on the washing line and bingo, it's back to perfect. I don't have the optional straps or pockets on them. I think that would look a little mad on something so obviously plasticky.

    It all depends on the weather, which can be any season on any day here in England.
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