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Most issues with the flat cap is more from a traditional stand point. The flat cap is distinctly English so in that regards its along the same lines as wearing a bowler hat or fedora with the kilt. doesn't really fit. At first I didn't really know the flat cap was English.
Good lord! Are they English? Frankly I don't know if the flat cap originates from England, I have never really thought about it, but somehow I doubt if the truth of its origin will really ever be known. However many thousands of acres of Scottish tweed must have been used to make them over the years.

My objection to flat caps with the kilt is purely an aesthetic one, nothing more. I do concede that it is hardly a hanging offence to wear one with the kilt if one so chooses, nevertheless it is worth pointing out to those that don't know that they are not traditional kilt attire. I know that the flat cap was indeed worn with the kilt for a brief period of time during the latter part of the Victorian era and into Edwardian times, but that does not make flat caps with the kilt look any better or traditional.

They do allow for a certain amount of ammunition for some good natured banter on this website from time to time though!