When to wear the Balmoral

[TheForrester]

Rspectfully, neither Balmoral nor Glengarry is more or less military nor civilian than the other. More mythology.

Thank you for the info.

[James Hood]

Being (as a colleague of decades describes as) "a pasty-afs white boy"), 360-degree, relatively wide-brimmed hats are the norm all year around.

When it's windy, wear one with a chin strap. When it's cold and windy, wear a wool one with chinstrap and ear flaps. When it's sunny and cool, a fur-felt bush hat. When it's sunny and warm, a canvas one with vents. For warm outside work, a straw Texas Sombrero. All variants serve valiantly in rain.

About the only use here for a Balmoral is after dark.

Thank you for the reaffirming bit on the Glegarry and Balmoral being both military and civilian.

[Todd Bradshaw]

I wear my balmoral-inspired tweed tams (or whatever they might officially be called) as my standard winter hats, and have for probably fifteen years. Most of the winter ones are Harris or Cheviot tweed, lined with polar fleece (which helps around here). I've even considered putting fold-down Elmer (Mac)Fudd earflaps inside a couple - for those days when it's so cold and windy that you don't care how goofy you look.



Unlike Jock's photo, about half of the year our convertible weather looks more like this though.

[Father Bill]

I've got one of those, but I don't bother bundling up like that!