Fly Plaid at Burns Supper?

[OC Richard]

All my questioning in this thread stemmed from curiosity regarding what happens at Burns Night Suppers, both in Scotland and around the world.

I am pretty familiar with what constitutes contemporary day and evening highland wear, but curious just because Burns Night is special whether there might be ways beyond wearing clothes he and his friends probably never wore to mark the occasion.

About other places I don't know, but here in California men who own Highland Evening Dress will wear it, and men who don't will be wearing blazers, suits, or (less often) tuxedos.

The men in Highland Dress do tend to push the boat out; with many of the gents the motto for the evening is "let nothing be left behind". It is a night of empty closets and cupboards.

Though some men will have tasteful traditional modern Highland outfits other men evidently didn't get the memo from 1920 to leave dirks, crossbelts, swords, plaids, brooches, pins, bonnets, hackles, and feathers at home.