
Originally Posted by
TheOfficialBren
*** to what the rabble have said. Where would one afgix it and it would look out-of-place.
I'm okay with flatcaps whether kilted or tousered. I understand that they are more of an American kilting hat TODAY but in the PAST they WERE worn whilest kilted without a second thought in Scotland.
Kilted cabbie!

I think there is plenty of evidence that flat tweed caps were worn by kilted gentlemen before 1914 in Scotland. So I think it was indeed a kilt fashion in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods to wear tweed caps with the kilt. For some reason that I have never understood after WW1(1918) the flat cap seemed to drop out of kilt fashion in Scotland. My inevitable conclusion
is that it was probably because they all decided that tweed caps and kilts do not go well together and at nearly 100 years later I still cannot fault them on their observations!
" Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the adherence of idle minds and minor tyrants". Field Marshal Lord Slim.