Hats?

[Bugbear]

Ted, do you still have all those links I posted to one of your threads for Newsboys & Flat Caps?
Can you post them here?

These are some links to flat caps that BoldHighlander provided in one of my threads.

Ivy Cap

(Cavanagh) Flat Cap
Irish Flat Cap
(brown or gray tweeds)

Here's several more hat links I've collected:

Riverkilt's thread "Great Hat Source" with Links to hats

Russet Lodge Custom Knits

The Scottish Tartans Museum's bonnets

BIG HEAD CAPS "Big hats for Big heads-EXTRA LARGE SIZED ONLY"


Thread with Hat Paterns


I do have others, but I will have to look around for them.

[Derek Conley]

Perhaps one of you gents can help me out here and clarify...

Would this Barnton cap be essentially the same as an "Ivy" cap?

I'm trying to learn all the differences and I'd like to get the "Barnton cap" in USMC Leatherneck tartan. I'm sure I'll order it anyways but I'm just trying to learn if "Ivy" and "Barnton" are all the same thing!

[BoldHighlander]

Perhaps one of you gents can help me out here and clarify...

Would this Barnton cap be essentially the same as an "Ivy" cap?

Hi Derek -- in my opinion I'd say "yes"
It's a "flat cap" (another variation of the name).

[Derek Conley]

Hi Derek -- in my opinion I'd say "yes"
It's a "flat cap" (another variation of the name).

I appreciate the confirmation; I kept looking at them both and determined (to my untrained eye) that they looked... well... the same. I just wanted to make sure!

Unfortunately, the company to which I posted a link in my original post does not offer that cap in the "Leatherneck" tartan... so I'll have to search elsewhere.

This brings me to another question: is it "too much" to wear a flat cap with the same tartan as your kilt... or is it best to go with a more complimentary-colored cap?

[Jock Scot]

I think one can overdo the tartan bit and in my humble opinion a cap(if you must) in tartan is overdoing it, when worn with the kilt. The other thing to watch out for, is mixing tartans. Now wearing a clan tartan kilt and a bonnet of a different tartan,but of the same clan would be OK. But wearing tartans of different clans would not be courtious to either clan and in some cases, will cause offence.