Balmoral or Beret ?

[Pleater]

I read a message on one of the knitting lists from someone who hand knits hose and received an order for - I think it was five pairs of hosen - to match a particular tartan, and the customer said they would drive over in 12 days time to collect them on the Friday morning so they could wear them for the wedding rehersal, the wedding being the next day.

As the lead time on the yarn was two to three weeks that wasn't going to happen.

The customer got quite upset.

Some things just take time.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[NWTkilts]

First off, a big hello from a new member from the NWT, Canada who is attending uni in Alberta!

Now, on to headgear.

I used to have a Balmoral, but it was stolen from atop my head in a crowd (I suppose I made someone jealous?). Alack.

So in the interim of getting a new one I wear a donegal tweed cap which goes fine with my Black Watch kilt. I also have a Glengarry for more formal occasions (such as my run in with the royals in Yellowknife this year).

I've never worn a beret with my kilt before, mostly because I've always had better options (better to my mind I mean). I have a burgundy beret that fits me, and a pale blue UN beret that was my fathers (and thus is way too small for me). Neither of which compliment the dark green of the Black Watch.

I would personally opt for a donegal tweed cap before I'd resort to a beret (of course, there is nothing wrong with letting them free scottish locks blow in the wind ). I'm sure that they would be relatively easy to acquire in the U.S. and Canada in any decent hat shop (not those crap ball-cap vendors you see in malls mind you).

-Reiss, Kruger by birth, MacDonald by ancestry.