Quote Originally Posted by Courtmount View Post
The problem is that it looks as if you are trying to look conventional and have got it wrong - I'm speculating but perhaps that is why the flatcap/kilt combo raises hackles in unhyphenated Scots. Frankly I'm embarrassed for you, which of course I have no right to be, which just makes it worse.

Hope this deals with the above posters question as well.
The problem you have here Courtmount is you're trying to interject your opinions into others by speculating upon their intentions (such as they are trying to look traditional). For example, the above you have speculated that you feel like Raphael is appearing to be traditional because of his flat cap when in fact you have no way to know what is going on in his head, or the rest of his outfit (who frequently wears utilikilts and the like).

Nor do you really know what is going on in the head of the other "natives" that do compliment American's on the combination. It could *gasps* be that they DO in fact like it and are NOT in fact being sarcastic and mean. It might be something that you would do but by and large I have found that a compliment is usually given in the vein that it is meant to be sincere.

On this board there are more non-traditionalists than traditionalists but that does not give you the right to be condescending to the non-traditionalists by saying you're embarrassed for them. It is in a word: rude. My apologies for my wee rant.

I know I will raise the hackles of many but I am like Raphael. I could care less what is on a persons head. I like the look of a flat cap because it has a french appearance that I find attractive. It must be the French blood that runs in my veins.