Is This Historical Highland Attire ?

[Jock Scot]

I am no expert on this, just an observer of old pictures. I don't think that any of it is historically accurate-----apart from, perhaps, the long hair. Good fun to watch, but at least 300 hundred yards between me and the music(?) would suit me just fine.

[Phil]

Very much one for the tourists during the Edinburgh Festival, I would say. For some reason people drape themselves in old blankets and strut about the city pretending they have just stepped out of "Braveheart" at that time of year. The tourists like it though.
The bagpipes sound genuine although I'm not sure if the tune doesn't come from the Last of the Mohicans - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWGRnHOhGiE - the drums are about as Scottish as roast beef and Yorkshire pudding apart from the celtic one which owes more to Irish culture and the Corries.