Australian Army to ditch the Kilt...!

**macwilkin** · 27th December 09, 09:05 PM

Originally Posted by Lachlan09

Not my cup of porridge, but that's because I've been indoctrinated with the mainly green/blue regimental tartans we all know and love.

The Australia tartan shown above was not originally a military tartan, but a district tartan later adopted by the pipes & drums of the 5th/7th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment. Before that they wore the tartan of their affiliated regiment, the Gordons -- "surely the finest regiment in the world", to quote Churchill.

T.

**QMcK** · 27th December 09, 09:06 PM

Well, I assumed that one would apply to join the army then be assigned to a regiment based on where you live.

Anyway, you can hardly argue that a kilt with hose would be comfortable in Australia. It gets really hot over there.

**macwilkin** · 27th December 09, 09:15 PM

Originally Posted by QMcK

Well, I assumed that one would apply to join the army then be assigned to a regiment based on where you live.

Anyway, you can hardly argue that a kilt with hose would be comfortable in Australia. It gets really hot over there.

I know several Aussies who wear Highland kit with no worries, mate.

T.

**Lachlan09** · 27th December 09, 09:15 PM

Originally Posted by cajunscot

the Gordons -- "surely the finest regiment in the world", to quote Churchill.

T.

Obviously Churchill hadn't met the Argylls, probably because they were away fighting at the time !

**macwilkin** · 27th December 09, 09:17 PM

Originally Posted by Lachlan09

Obviously Churchill hadn't met the Argylls, probably because they were away fighting at the time !

Well played.

T.

**QMcK** · 27th December 09, 09:19 PM

Originally Posted by cajunscot

I know several Aussies who wear Highland kit with no worries, mate.

T.

Surely not on hot days. If so, I would really like to know what material the hose is made of. I tried wearing my kilt with woolen hose in summer a few years ago and I couldn't stand it.

Even the light cotton knee-high socks we wore to school were too much on really hot days.

**QMcK** · 28th December 09, 01:43 AM

I'm not just trying to wind you up: I really want to know what type of hose these people wear. The photos I've seen of the Aussie members of this forum in hot weather show them wearing no hose.

**OC Richard** · 28th December 09, 05:19 AM

It's common here too to wear the kilt (traditional or Ukilt) with zorries and no socks, or trainers/athletic shoes and low socks.

I have a pair of soccer socks that work OK with the kilt and aren't too hot in hot weather.

By the way it was Aloha shirt, shorts, and zorries yesterday here for me.

**macwilkin** · 28th December 09, 07:52 AM

Originally Posted by QMcK

I'm not just trying to wind you up: I really want to know what type of hose these people wear. The photos I've seen of the Aussie members of this forum in hot weather show them wearing no hose.

You'll find numerous pipe bands in Oz, such as the Perth (WA) Highland Pipe Band that wear full Highland rig, and they play at the Jakarta Highland Games. The Aussies I know who wear Highland rig wear the traditional attire to Caledonian Society & masonic meetings.

T.

**###KILTEDKIWI###** · 4th January 10, 06:43 PM

Surely not on hot days. If so, I would really like to know what material the hose is made of. I tried wearing my kilt with woolen hose in summer a few years ago and I couldn't stand it.

Mate, up here in jafa land, when I wear a kilt (during the day), its a black watch light weight x kilt (made by her in doors) and i just scrunch down my hose over the boots, or i just go barefoot (at games etc), even then, its flippin hot, its hard for us mainlanders to understand, and when I first came here from Invercargill i thought i was gonna die, but you get acclimatised in time.

(rambles away to work on his southland accent before returning home in feb and gets picked on for being an aucklander...)