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19th December 13, 12:34 PM
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Cool.... I traced the image back to this website, which suggests the photo was taken at the 2008 WPBC in Glasgow:
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/leith/2775655274/
The photographer has some other nice shots (from the same event and elsewhere): http://www.flickriver.com/places/Uni...asgow/Gorbals/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/leith/s...th/2814009994/
Last edited by Tim Little; 19th December 13 at 01:34 PM.
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19th December 13, 12:46 PM
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Thanks Tim for the larger photo. I really see little to complain about, I do agree with Jock the kilt is too low, and like Kyle I do not like those chain attachments. Overall though a good look an yes a part of a pipe band hence the sporran and black argyll jacket. One thing that I heard years ago and it may have been right here is that with traditional Highland wear the bottom button of the vest is done up, I'm not sure how proper that is but I do notice his is undone. I think there has to be some worse photos out there, again not much wrong here at all.
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19th December 13, 12:55 PM
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I was thinking it looked like a pipe band member - perhaps St. Lawrence O'Toole (SLOT)? They have changed their look a little bit every year (shirt colors, hose colors, etc.), but I think they've been wearing jackets with the chained buttons for a while.
John
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19th December 13, 01:12 PM
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Last edited by Tim Little; 19th December 13 at 02:32 PM.
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19th December 13, 01:23 PM
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Something no one else has mentioned yet: it would be nice to see his shirt sleeve cuffs. It doesn't appear that his jacket sleeves are too long (as is often the case), but rather that his shirt sleeves are too short. Or perhaps he's wearing a short-sleeved shirt under that jacket (very common with pipe bands, from what I've seen).
*Actually, I went ahead and checked all the photos, and it does appear the pipe band wears short-sleeved shirts. Seems kind of weird for him to wear a jacket over that, but whatever. We could nit-pick the fine details of what he's wearing and how he's wearing it, but overall I think he does it justice.
I have a tweed kilt jacket with that button-link thingy permanently attached to it. It's awkward. I don't want to walk around with it buttoned, but it feels stupid walking around with it dangling from one side of the jacket. And I'm afraid to cut it off because it looks like it's attached to the same connection as the button on the front. So if I cut it off, I'll have to reattach the front button, and I'm just too lazy to do that.
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19th December 13, 01:37 PM
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19th December 13, 01:44 PM
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 Originally Posted by Tim Little
Looks like a pipe band thing:
It may be popular with pipe bands nowadays, but I'm certain it goes back quite a long time. Mine is a 1960s vintage jacket and has it permanently attached (using antler buttons, no less). You can see it dangling next to my belt buckle in the photo below. Highly doubtful this jacket ever saw use in a pipe band.
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19th December 13, 02:07 PM
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The chain closure is popular with pipe bands for a good reason: it keeps the flap of the jacket from bunching up when the pipe bag is pushed up and back under the arm (usually the left). An unfastened jacket can be problematic for a piper in a band, especially in competition, because you don't get a second chance to position the bag. It does, indeed, go back quite a few years. When I began piping in 1958, the band I played with wore the regulation doublet. This had a form of closure similar to the chain closure, but made of silver piping material to match the piping on the jacket. You can see it clearly in this photo taken in 1959.
Also, the jacket sleeves are often a bit too long, partly because correctly sized sleeves would expose far too much shirt (or skin) when the wearer is playing, and partly because most pipe bands just can't afford to have every player custom fitted.
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19th December 13, 02:15 PM
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If you swap the sporran for a leather one and change the tartan, it's almost exactly the same as our pipe band wears for many occasions. Even the tie is almost identical. We wear the chain link thingies, which do help the jacket stay in position when striking in the pipes.
"Touch not the cat bot a glove."
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19th December 13, 02:20 PM
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Originally Posted by McMurdo
One thing that I heard years ago and it may have been right here is that with traditional Highland wear the bottom button of the vest is done up, I'm not sure how proper that is but I do notice his is undone.
It's great you mentioned this as it has been nagging at me for awhile. I always keep the bottom button undone on my vest's. So what is the story behind the "Traditional Highland" wear not un-buttoning the bottom button on the vest? Does anyone know the history here?
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