Show us your Vintage Kilt Photos

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Just to prove that you don't have to be Scottish to wear a kilt, here we have a descendent of the House of Hesse, HRH Henry of Battenburg, and son-in-law of Queen Victoria by way of her youngest child, Princess Beatrice.

How about that leopard sporran?

Regards,
Rex.

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From a biography of Gen. William Westmoreland at Vietnam.com

William Westmoreland attended the World Boy Scout Jamboree in
England during the summer of 1929.

While there, he acquired this kilt from a Scottish scout.

Regards,
Rex.

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From the Atlantic Canada Pipe Band Association, the Ceilidh Girls' Pipe Band:

The Ceildih Girls' Pipe Band circa 1956 in Halifax

Regards,
Rex.

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Kilted Schoolboys

Whoops! Duplicate... McMurdo beat me to it.
10th June 1935: Three schoolboys at Queen Victoria School, Dunblane,
wearing kilts watch their teacher in a woodworking class.

Ha, ha. Wearing a tie to woodshop class!

Regards,
Rex.

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From "DON ROY'S NARRATIVE (for the grandkids and anyone else who may be interested" - I guess that's us):

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Having a beer, Munster Lager, Germany - 1953 | [Friends] Sharing a moment in Bermuda - 1957

There are at his web site more pictures and the story of his life - and life with the pipes - so far...

Regards,
Rex.

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Here are a few borrowed from random family genealogical sites:

From the personal pages of Donna Smillie, whose collection of WWI photos are really interesting to see:

Captain R Leslie Smith and NCO's, 'C' Company, 8th Battalion Argyll &
Sutherland Highlanders - all wear the 1914 Mons Star. Charleroi, Belgium, 1919.

A posed group photograph, showing six men wearing uniform. Three men sit at the front on a low bench, their legs crossed. In the centre sits Captain Smith, [...]. Behind them stand the other three men, hands clasped behind their backs. All except Captain Smith are wearing kilts. The ground is bare earth. A wooden fence runs across the picture behind them, with a building (a farmhouse?) visible in the middle distance. Two figures (boys?) look over the fence on the right of the picture, watching the proceedings. A cart or limber can be seen on the left.

O.C. 'C' Company (Captain Robert Leslie Smith), Company
Sergeant Major, Company Quartermaster Sergeant.

Three men in uniform stand in the open entrance to a tall conical tent. Another tent and a building are visible in the background. They are standing on the edge of what looks like a round, raised wooden floor for the tent. The man in the centre is wearing an officer's uniform, with jodhpurs, and the two men on either side of him are wearing kilts.

Captain Robert Leslie Smith in dress uniform with kilt.

More to follow...

Regards,
Rex

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These are unrelated...

From the pages of the Glynn family tree (complete with MIDI music! ):

Raymond Arcadius Glynn
Raymond left home and joined the Colours - 1916
Born 12 January 1900, Niagara Falls, Canada
Died 6 June 1972, Buffalo, NY

The apron appears to have a buttoned flap for access to the sporran, I would presume.

One of Carol Studebaker's ancestors, Don:

Plucked from the Niven family tree:

Malcolm Campbell Niven, son of Malcolm Wright Niven
and Fannie Field Bridges, in 1887, wearing kilt and kilt pin.
The kilt pin is still in the family.

They mean brooch. Here is is:

The bow he's holding looks a tad big for him.

Australian Nick Freeman has a kiltie in the woodshed, too, he thinks:

Regards,
Rex.

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Just to prove that you don't have to be Scottish to wear a kilt, here we have a descendent of the House of Hesse, HRH Henry of Battenburg, and son-in-law of Queen Victoria by way of her youngest child, Princess Beatrice.

How about that leopard sporran?

Regards,
Rex.

I love those pictures...and the man. Just ordered an Argyll jacket like that inspired by that picture...

But what hat is that? It looks like a cross between flat cap and breton cap?

And the idea he was mocked in a kilt is laughable...he looked amazing.

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And ye didny even mention tha BE-ARD!

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Why would I? I'm of the opinion every man should have a beard or a moustache!