Hats?

[thanmuwa]

I also had no idea that the style of hat, newsboy or flatcap, wouldn't be worn with a kilt in Scotland. Why is that? Is the Glengarry or Balmoral so much more popular that you just wouldn't see it, or is there some prejudice against the flatcap, or what?

Generally, the kilt is only worn in Scotland these days as formalwear, in which case a glengarry or balmoral would be the only headwear formal enough, or as a sportfan or stag-weekend-attendee, in which case hats aren't usually worn.

OTOH I wear a flat cap occasionally with a kilt, and I live in Scotland (I am Irish not Scottish though). Sounds like I am the only one

[Jock Scot]

Generally, the kilt is only worn in Scotland these days as formalwear, in which case a glengarry or balmoral would be the only headwear formal enough, or as a sportfan or stag-weekend-attendee, in which case hats aren't usually worn.

OTOH I wear a flat cap occasionally with a kilt, and I live in Scotland (I am Irish not Scottish though). Sounds like I am the only one

Aha! Found you! The exception that proves the rule.

[Bugbear]

Aha! Found you! The exception that proves the rule.

Jock Scot found him! The one guy in all of Scotland who wears a flatcap with a kilt. Guess it's an Irish thing too, then...

[Casey_in_Carolina]

So what happened in 1914 that the flat cap with the kilt went out of style?



Casey

[Jock Scot]

So what happened in 1914 that the flat cap with the kilt went out of style?



Casey

I am not sure, but I suppose WW1 would be number one suspect.It was certainly the end of an era and nearly the end of a generation of men from the warring nations.Other than that I really cannot say.

[fluter]

Casey, you look fine in your cap. At our latitude, I must put in the obligatory plug for the Tilley. I love my Balmoral, my beret, my watch cap; but with or without the kilt, i require a hat with a serious brim. For us fair-skinned folk, this is recommended for all locations south of, say, Carlisle.



... or sometimes ...



Given rainfall statistics, I think that in summer the Tilley would also do nicely north of Carlisle. I have a fur felt Dobbs that has never been quite the same, since it went down the Great Glen. In fairness, it had already circumnavigated the Olympic peninsula. It was a brave and noble hat.

[Jock Scot]

Quite right! How could I forget the Tilley hat! Wonderful bit of kit, with or without the kilt.

[Bugbear]

It's almost expected that a hat with brim or bill be worn out here in the sizzling desert. The straw hat and wide brimmed canvas hats I wear when working didn't seem to go with the tartan kilts so well...

But, sense I had already been wearing flat caps or driving caps for most of my life, it seemd a more logical choice to go with a kilt.

* Sorry, I had to go look up what Jock Scot was calling this hat to finnish this post. If I ever get a deerstalker, or "fore and aft" hat, that will be an even better hat for out here. I did have a tweed deerstalker, but it was ruined by a cat several years before I started wearing the kilt. *

[Bugbear]

Here's the link I was looking for back there.

Miller Hats

There's all kinds of hats there.I think it was flat caps and newsboys being requested, though, and they have those. I think they might have one deerstalker hat in the costume hats... it was tweed...

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

My preferred hat, kilted or no, in the summer is a good quality panama. They last for ever (well, ten or more years if you take a bit of care with your things), and take on a character of their own. Love 'em.