Blue Bonnet

[beloitpiper]

Where can I get a traditional (historical, more or less) blue bonnet? I have a beret, but it's not the same....too French to wear with the kilt.

[McMurdo]

I found this one

http://www.tartanweb.com/view/bonnets/blue_bonnet.html

[Nervous Jock]

I found this one

http://www.tartanweb.com/view/bonnets/blue_bonnet.html

Surely you wouldn't bee seen dead in that

[Nervous Jock]

There should be loads of these floating about as the Blue Bonnet is no longer dress for RRS

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-Black-Watc...QQcmdZViewItem

[McMurdo]

Surely you wouldn't bee seen dead in that

He was asking for an historical bluebonnet, he didn't ask if I would wear it.

[Nervous Jock]

He was asking for an historical bluebonnet, he didn't ask if I would wear it.

if you wore that over here you would pinged as a plastic jock

[McMurdo]

if you wore that over here you would pinged as a plastic jock

Well hereis thier mailing adress, it seems they are oveer there.

Mailing Address:
Tartanweb Scotland Ltd.
45 Grove Park Street
Glasgow
G20 7NZ

[Scott Gilmore]

I can vouch for GlengarryHats.com. Excellent quality, price and personal service - your standard Canadian fare. Goes well with a kilt, too.

[MacWage]

NOTE:
There IS a difference between the Auld Bonnie Blue Bonnets and the modern Balmorals.
*they are related: the balmoral is a modern derivative of the blue bonnet.
HOWEVER, they are not the same and most reenactment groups would frown on one wearing a moden balmoral while representing a Jacobite-era Scot. (Actually, the same is true of the Kilt -vs. period belted plaids and "philabegs"- too.)

The Scot Tartan Museum one is pretty accurate (both cut-and-sewn and the knit one). Matt knows his stuff and makes sure that what they carry is of good quality and that the "historic" lines actually ARE historically accurate.

[Woodsheal]

MacWage is right. There's a big difference between modern balmorals and the bonnets of the jacobite era (late 17th, early 18th centuries). The early bonnets were usually knit and felted, wider and "floppier" than today's, and were worn flat, not cocked up on the left side:



Also, they didn't have big "pom-poms" on top, that being a later development. Instead, there was a little "nipple" where the knitting comes together: