Word: kilted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dunn--gaily clad in a green plaid kilt, green tweed jacket, green knee socks, and black bonnet--then yielded to the 15-member Stuart Highland Pipe Band of Bedford, which piped old favorites like "Scotland the Brave" and "We're No Away to Bide Away" to complete the ceremony...
Even weirder, of course, was their uniform-an affront to starched red coat propriety from the tops of their bearskin hats to the tips of their famous diamond-patterned Argyll stockings. In fact, these fineries, plus the tartan kilt, so effectively kept Englishmen from signing on with the regiment that Britain's adjutant-general at one point ordered it to adopt a uniform less "objectionable to the natives of South Britain...
Tight Weave. Though Cohen him self refuses to don a kilt, his company owes much to the traditional attire of the Scotsman. There are now an estimated 250 tartans that Cohen can choose from, but he leans toward such old standards as Royal Stewart and Black Watch...
...future of kiltmaking, nothing would please Bonchy more than to swing his company's skirts into places where kilts are never worn. Says he: "I'd love to see every Chinaman wearing a kilt." But until that unlikely event occurs, D. & H. Cohen will produce kilts only for women-and leave men wearing the pants...
There's likely to be some fun for Quincy House, too. Dunn is known to wear a dress kilt to formal Lowell House dinners, and he and his wife excel at Scottish country dancing. As for the bagpipes, "the upper pent-house of Quincy," he says, "is a very suitable place for them...