Flat Caps. No no and thrice no! Suitable hats when wearing your kilt. Discuss

[Oddern]

I think a flat cap is an exelent headwear with the kilt, and a beret is even more sutable. But this is only in a casual wear thing. In more formal kilt situations these hats are absolutly no no.
As for the baseball cap I think its a mismatch with the kilt in any situation. I don't know why, I just don't lik it.

[Good Egg]

I think a flat cap is an exelent headwear with the kilt, and a beret is even more sutable. But this is only in a casual wear thing. In more formal kilt situations these hats are absolutly no no.
As for the baseball cap I think its a mismatch with the kilt in any situation. I don't know why, I just don't lik it.

No they aren't. Now if you accept that its not the right thing to wear with a kilt but say to yourself bugger it I don't care I'm going to wear it anyway that's fine. You are accepting that people are going to look at you and think you are eccentric or ignorant.

Perhaps my earlier leiderhosen and cowboy boots parallel was wide of the mark. Perhaps a better simile would be a tweed sports jacket. I have a damn fine tweed sports jacket. However if one day I put my kilt on and said to myself ah hah! I need a tweed jacket to top this off, I know I put on my old faithful sports jacket it would be wrong. I'd look an arrse in it - same goes for the flat cap: Discuss...

[Jock Scot]

I don't suppose that anyone will be surprised that in my humble opinion and I rather think most of kilt wearing Scotland too, that a flat cap with the kilt looks downright awful. I know someone will chip in with an "Edwardian" type picture to "prove" that caps and kilts were worn together and it's true they were. It did not stop it looking, awful then just as it does now. I am a fan of tweed caps, but not with the kilt. As to those baseball hat things I make no comment.

How and what people choose to wear is ,of course, up to them and it is also their right to look like a lemon, if they so choose.

[macwilkin]

Why is this thread in the heraldry & tartans section?

Todd

[Good Egg]

Why is this thread in the heraldry & tartans section?

Todd

Not sure how it ended up there, I had intended it to go into the accessories forum and given that its daytime here I can't even claim vino as an excuse for idleness/clumsiness in typing and mouse button pushing.ith:

[Kiltedmusiclover]

Not sure how it ended up there, I had intended it to go into the accessories forum and given that its daytime here I can't even claim vino as an excuse for idleness/clumsiness in typing and mouse button pushing.ith:

It was moved to the Kilt accessories earlier today.

[Good Egg]

It was moved to the Kilt accessories earlier today.

Thanks, as I say I had intended it to be there all along.

[Rex_Tremende]

I know someone will chip in with an "Edwardian" type picture to "prove" that caps and kilts were worn together and it's true they were.

You mean like this one?

It's Victorian, but...

Happy to oblige,
Rex.

[Arlen]

I don't suppose that anyone will be surprised that in my humble opinion and I rather think most of kilt wearing Scotland too, that a flat cap with the kilt looks downright awful. I know someone will chip in with an "Edwardian" type picture to "prove" that caps and kilts were worn together and it's true they were. It did not stop it looking, awful then just as it does now. I am a fan of tweed caps, but not with the kilt. As to those baseball hat things I make no comment.

How and what people choose to wear is ,of course, up to them and it is also their right to look like a lemon, if they so choose.

Well, Jock, I'm one of the Kilt-wearing Scots who disagree.
I think flat caps in a more traditional style can look great with a Kilt.
I wear one of the 'Jacobite' (Read 18th century) Kilt bonnets my wife made. They are floppy so that they can be worn in many styles as shown historically. I often wear it pulled forward in the style of a flat cap and think it compliments the look of my Kilt outfit.
I'd even wear it pulled into a Balmoral style for formal events!

[Jock Scot]

Well, Jock, I'm one of the Kilt-wearing Scots who disagree.
I think flat caps in a more traditional style can look great with a Kilt.
I wear one of the 'Jacobite' (Read 18th century) Kilt bonnets my wife made. They are floppy so that they can be worn in many styles as shown historically. I often wear it pulled forward in the style of a flat cap and think it compliments the look of my Kilt outfit.
I'd even wear it pulled into a Balmoral style for formal events!

Hi Arlen,how are you doing? I am thinking more of the tweed type of flat cap not the "Jacobite" sort, although I am not keen of those either! Of course you are in the midst of flat capped American kilt wearers so I would expect you to have had a certain amount of influence brought to bare!