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    Quote Originally Posted by M. A. C. Newsome View Post
    If you absolutely must have a clan crest on your flat cap, I'd find one of those small quarter sized ones that some vendors carry and use that one.
    But again... where would one mount it? The only flat spot with a vertical face is at the rear. Unless you wear it backwards like Samuel L. Jackson, lol.

    I just can't see putting any type of pin on a flat cap without it looking weird.

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    Quote Originally Posted by M. A. C. Newsome View Post
    If you absolutely must have a clan crest on your flat cap, I'd find one of those small quarter sized ones that some vendors carry and use that one.
    Good idea, but then one could be mistaken for a kilt-wearing taxi driver. (Do cabbies still wear union pins?)

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    *** 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!
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheOfficialBren View Post
    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.
    Where on Earth did you get that idea? I mean, we've all seen a rare example or two of vintage photos with men wearing flat caps and kilts. But I'm not sure how you leaped to the conclusion that it was commonplace or done "without a second thought".

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheOfficialBren View Post
    *** 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!
    Can you site your source for this comment?

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheOfficialBren View Post
    *** 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.

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    I've seen quite a large number of vintage photos...not just one or two. Maybe I jumped the gun that statement.

    Jock's post states better than me what I was getting at here.
    Last edited by TheOfficialBren; 12th March 13 at 11:51 AM.
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