Quote Originally Posted by ForresterModern View Post
Jock

You've hit on the key issue here-----style and taste, personal preference. Not convention, not history, not nationalism. Flat caps are kinda like broccoli. Some folks like them and others hate them, then others wouldn't give a whip. It is that way with pretty much anything with a style--clothes, cars, TV shows and movies, on and on and on....

But you have to admit, there must be an awful lot of folks who do like those flat caps, with or without kilts, as it seems that the retailers continue to sell them a quite a clip.

j
I agree... it's a matter of style and taste.

If you read the book 'so you want to wear the kilt' (considered a sort of bible to many), it suggests that a kilt should be worn at LOWEST an inch above the kneecap (if memory serves). If people on this side of the pond would do that as standard, we'd all be laughed at for wearing mini kilts.

I've had people who were IN the Sutherland Highlanders pipe band and the Canadian military tell me that my kilt is too short b/c when I kneel, it is an inch off the ground (hits the top of my knee). According to what he was told in the service, the kilt should be JUST scraping the ground when worn.

Who is correct?

Flat caps worn with can be seen in the same way. Who is correct?

The only thing that could bother me is when people wear a tartan flat cap and a DIFFERENT tartan kilt. I hate mixing tartans, even though it 'historically done'.