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

[The Barry]

I guess I just don't understand. What is it that makes a Russian fur hat, canadian fur hat, cowboy hat, smokie bear/ranger hat OK with a kilt, yet a tweed flat cap not? In my eyes, ALL those options are much more discordant. The only folks you'll see wearing a smokie bear type hat (if it's what I'm thinking of...)

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I still think that the flat cap works fine. In fact, I've seen it with me own eyes!

I think that we might be confused about where a flat cap could/would be worn with a kilt. I would wear a flat cap with a kilt to:

A parade on St Patrick's day, or any other day
The pub
Running errands
To work (I only wish!)
Etc, etc, "day wear" situations

I would NOT wear the flat cap with a kilt to:

Burn's supper
A funeral
A wedding
Church/Mass
A formal dinner
Someone's house if they were one of the people that posted on this thread that they really dislike the flat cap with the kilt.

Well, I might wear it then, just to push buttons!

[Jock Scot]

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I still think that the flat cap works fine. In fact, I've seen it with me own eyes!

I think that we might be confused about where a flat cap could/would be worn with a kilt. I would wear a flat cap with a kilt to:

A parade on St Patrick's day, or any other day
The pub
Running errands
To work (I only wish!)
Etc, etc, "day wear" situations

I would NOT wear the flat cap with a kilt to:

Burn's supper
A funeral
A wedding
Church/Mass
A formal dinner
Someone's house if they were one of the people that posted on this thread that they really dislike the flat cap with the kilt.

Well, I might wear it then, just to push buttons!

I hear what you say and of course it is your right to wear what you like when you like. Just so that that there is no confusion, for me, I cannot conceive of any event or any occasion day or evening when I would even consider wearing a flat cap with the kilt. I am simply amazed that your cap wearing countrymen cannot see how awful they look with the kilt. Enough said, I think it is time for me to bow out of this thread.

[ForresterModern]

I hear what you say and of course it is your right to wear what you like when you like. Just so that that there is no confusion, for me, I cannot conceive of any event or any occasion day or evening when I would even consider wearing a flat cap with the kilt. I am simply amazed that your cap wearing countrymen cannot see how awful they look with the kilt. Enough said, I think it is time for me to bow out of this thread.

Jock

My friend, always remember. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. To you they look awful, to a lot of others they look fine. Just the way of the world. My advice, just don't look when you see them coming.


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