My winter go to is either a Balmoral, a handmade broad bonnet, a tam or a wool beret. Interestingly, I first fell into that in my early 20's when I started wearing a wool dress Gordon tam with toorie during all but the warm months---25 years before I discovered my patrilineal scottish heritage and started down the kilted way. As others, I am almost always capped when outdoors because of baldness (cold or fear of sunburn or skin cancer) and have more than a collection of a variety of styles of headgear of various cultures.
Jock's "first horse out of the gates" comments were on my tongue before I even got to his post, in nearly the same precise yet simple terms. Jock, I especially like the "Sam I Am" style to your subsequent presentation of opportunities (you can wear in on a plane, you can wear it on a train, you can were it here or there, you can wear it anywhere----apologies to Dr Seuss but I just could not get that out of my head as I read that post). Just splendid.
As to colors just about anything non-fluorescent will do, I even have a cream one (not the duck's egg beige like jock's) that I think was likely a limited run Mackie as it has identical construction to other Mackies in my closet (without Mackie tags). I especially like the two handmade bonnets I bought from friend Beverly here on the forum (lovingly knit in memory of her recently lost love) and another handmade picked up off the internet for a song, all in unusual colors or combos of colors.
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