Acceptable attire?

[Jerry]

As I said the Balmoral always reminds me of Archie the Inventor, In Scotland if you wear a hat its normally beacsuse your a piper or, god fobid -a Drummer, it is a fact that its mostly tourists here that wear tams and Balmorals, other than the Tartan Army, I rarely wear hats other than for pipeing, Ive always fancied a Top hat like Slash, or a cowboy hat, I have a few wooly hats and a fair collection of Glengarrys and feather Bonnet, trouble If someones wearing a hat I always think they are an "undercover baldy" wheras thats maybe a little unkind, however Id never suggest that wearing a glen or a tam with the Kilt is incorrect, I quite like those "CU Jimmy" tartan caps with the red hair poking out the bottom

It's not that I'm an "undercover baldy",as you put it. In fact, if I didn't shave my head, I would have thinning hair on top, and in cooler months I often go hatless. But, being in Scotland, I guess you don't experience the kind of temperatures and sun conditions we have here in Virginia during July and August.The temperatures are often over 100F(38C) and humidity near 100 percent at times. Believe me,you do not want to experience a "scalp burn". It is quite painful. Add to this, I have already had cancer so I use any available protection against getting skin cancer, including a hat.

[JerseyLawyer]

It's not that I'm an "undercover baldy",as you put it. In fact, if I didn't shave my head, I would have thinning hair on top, and in cooler months I often go hatless. But, being in Scotland, I guess you don't experience the kind of temperatures and sun conditions we have here in Virginia during July and August.The temperatures are often over 100F(38C) and humidity near 100 percent at times. Believe me,you do not want to experience a "scalp burn". It is quite painful. Add to this, I have already had cancer so I use any available protection against getting skin cancer, including a hat.

I agree. I have a full head of hair, but I still wear a panama hat to games in the summer months, to avoid getting sunburn on my ears, nose, and neck. I think it looks just fine, and it's a nod to the differing weather conditions in the USA than in Scotland. I usually wear an fedora to work, with a straw hat for summer, too, though, so I guess I'm a "hat guy".

That being said, I have worn a glen many times with bands, and I don't like them all that much. And balmorals call up too many bad memories of the old days, when many people in the band either wore them like pizza men, or put so many pins in the thing that you couldn't see the hat underneath. Yech!

[Streetcar]

Ardchoille, you look fine!
Besides, it's SEATTLE! I've seen tams and glengarry's on the head of people in jeans and biker jackets.

It's been my experience that sometimes a person will try to "correct" someone else in an attempt to hide their own ignorance on a subject that they frequently know nothing about.

Kilt on, and keep yer noggin warm!

[ardchoille]

Ardchoille, you look fine!
Besides, it's SEATTLE! I've seen tams and glengarry's on the head of people in jeans and biker jackets.

It's been my experience that sometimes a person will try to "correct" someone else in an attempt to hide their own ignorance on a subject that they frequently know nothing about.

Kilt on, and keep yer noggin warm!

Aye, the Seattle weather often calls for some type of covering.. seeing as I have no hair. Warm days in the middle of January, snow in the last days of March.. the weather is a bit unpredictable.

[Ryan Ross]

Actually, I've been wearing kilts for years and have never had a sporran chain wear or fray the kilt - I guess I've just been lucky. I recently purchased an all-leather strap, though, and am planning to switch because I feel it looks better.

It can happen, I'm afraid. I've seen a kilt with a hole all the way through the left apron, caused by a sporran chain. It breaks the heart...


As for what Hamish said, about Americans and hats, I'm living proof. Wear my ball cap all the time!

A picture from 4 years ago...


A picture from 3 years ago...


A picture from 2 years ago...


A picture from last year...


A picture from two weeks ago...


Same hat! I never took it off (note the fading)!

[Ian.MacAllan]

. . . Of course no gentleman would wear a hat indoors. . . .

Of course, every gentleman understands that, for the purposes of this rule, every hotel lobby is a part of the great outdoors and that motel offices are not hotel lobbies.

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[ardchoille]

Same hat! I never took it off (note the fading)!

That's called "hat dedication"

[thescot]

. . .Same hat! I never took it off (note the fading)!

That is very cool!

[Thistle Stop]

As for what Hamish said, about Americans and hats, I'm living proof. Wear my ball cap all the time!

A picture from two weeks ago...

Well, apparently you don't ALWAYS wear it, for example, with leather ...or a TOGA! LOL!

Great hat! Cool pic!

Cyndi

[Ryan Ross]

Well, apparently you don't ALWAYS wear it, for example, with leather ...or a TOGA! LOL!

Great hat! Cool pic!

Cyndi

Hahaha Thanks... I really am attached to that hat.

For the record, though, the guy in leather isn't "Ryan"... he's "Bad Ryan". The guy in the toga is "Ryanocrates". "Ryan" always wears a cap... as evinced by this recent picture of me, at the gas station: