King Charles III welcomed to Balmoral in Scotland by Royal Guard (lots of kilts)

**OC Richard** · 26th August 23, 04:55 AM

Originally Posted by stickman

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I traveled wearing a suit and tie, carrying a briefcase, a toolkit, and one suitcase...

With the amount of travel I did it would have been impossible to take more excess baggage.

I see many people travelling in their suits. It makes perfect sense to wear the things that would take up the most suitcase space.

The topic has come up often here with Highland Dress. I generally travel with one overhead-bin-carryon, but a full Highland outfit and pipes mostly fills it. I've thought about wearing the Highland outfit on the plane to free up all that suitcase space, but I've not done it yet. (This is for trips where pipes and full outfit are not optional.)

**Jock Scot** · 26th August 23, 05:36 AM

I think there is a certain amount of thinking ahead and thinking about unexpected events, when the Royal Family travel.We must remember that The King is head of the British armed forces, so I imagine, at least three sets of appropriate uniforms to meet with assorted events (Royal Navy, Army, Royal Air Force)have to travel with him. Plus, suits, dinner suits, formal dress evening attire, formal day attire, shooting suits, sports jackets, blazers, wet weather gear, casual attire and appropriate shirts, shoes, boots and so on. Also, probably assorted kilt attire too. So as I suggest, lots of trunks and cases.

**stickman** · 26th August 23, 07:24 AM

You are right a certain amount of planing is necessary. However the type of travel has to be considered. Is it for vacation or work? In my case it was for work. When I took care of the problem it was off to the next job. For instance, I was working at a tire company in Japan finished the job, called my boss to tell him I was done. He sent me to India. I left India on the 20th spent the night in Perth Australia. The night of the 21st in some outback gold mine location. The night of the 22nd was spent on a flight to Tokyo. Took care of a problem in Yokohama, back to Tokyo spent night of 23rd. The night of the 24th was spent in Birmingham England. Can you imagine with all the bouncing around carrying anything more than the bare minimum. It got to the point that when I woke up I had to think what country I was in. It was better when I worked in China. I worked out of Hong Kong where I rented a hotel room by the month.

**Ninehostages** · 4th September 23, 09:57 PM

Originally Posted by OC Richard

Right, each battalion has a differently coloured hackle on their TOS.

But with the Glengarry all battalions wear the same blackcock hackle.

The Camo "combats" with the brightly coloured hackles has me shaking my head a bit.

**OC Richard** · 5th September 23, 05:11 AM

Originally Posted by Ninehostages

The Camo "combats" with the brightly coloured hackles has me shaking my head a bit.

Yes it seems like an oxymoron, but the Black Watch did wear their red hackles (in place of a cap-badge) on their TOS throughout both World Wars.

Here, the Ode to the Haggis being performed in Afghanistan, you can see the TOS with hackle and also the MTP "boonie" hat. Most photos show helmets being worn, as one would expect.