Balmoral or Beret ?

[JolyStNicholas]

I wear a Black Beret while in me Black Watch atire, being former military I think it looks just fine, and standing 6'4" and topping 265#, two tour combat Marine, not many say any difference. I wear a varity of Balmorals,Caubeens, and other Bonnetts with me other kilts.

[piperdbh]

Thomas H,
When you decide you want a handmade bonnet, our own Ryan Ross makes them, and he lives in Hotlanta. Where is Villa Rica, anyway?

[Thomas H]

Thomas H,
When you decide you want a handmade bonnet, our own Ryan Ross makes them, and he lives in Hotlanta. Where is Villa Rica, anyway?

Villa Rica is just 30 minutes from Atlanta west ,toward alabama. I would be
very happy to but from a local vender. I just got an e-mail back from Dundar
company and there Balmorals are a 10-14 day shipping wait, I do not want to wait for something to ship. I do something different and end up still waiting.
It s just a part of being in to something (Scottish attire) and it not being
at hand all over.LOL

[Mike_Oettle]

Woodsheal is, of course, correct in stating: “Pom-poms weren't added to Scots bonnets till the latter 1700s, . . .”

I use the tourie as a mark of distinction because of my experience of berets as being worn by a part of the South African Army I disliked intensely, whereas in my regiment all the headgear had touries.
When my tammie was issued to me, I lost no time at all in “losing” my beret!
Regards,
Mike

[PEEDYC]

I wear a Green Beret with a stags head brooch with deer hair and short feathers when I wear headgear which is not that often. I think it looks the part. See my avatar and also a full head shot in the thread "Balmoral bonnet and feathers..." My post is number 29

Good luck with your choice.

[gary meakin]

here's my balmoral (sans ribbon and toorie)



'tho pretty soon someone is probably going to post that you can wear whatever you want. A pancake on your head if that suits you and don't worry about the beret police

[Tim Little]

here's my balmoral (sans ribbon and toorie)

Doesn't that pretty much make it a caubeen? (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)

[gary meakin]

Doesn't that pretty much make it a caubeen? (Not that there's anything wrong with that.)

I guess it does.
the ribbon kept bothering my neck and I got sick of the Where's Waldo comments from my wife so I guess I turned it into a caubeen without even knowing

[Peter Crowe]

I have a bottle green Balmoral (and buckled clan crest) which I occasionally wear with my Highland attire. I also have a navy blue genuine Basque beret which I sometimes wear with 'regular' clothes. I like the Basque beret a lot but personally would not wear it with the kilt. I also wear tweed flat caps (both 'ivy' style and 'eight-piece') which look great with a sports jacket and cords but which I would never wear with the kilt.

However, there are some non-traditional Scottish hats that can look good with the kilt. For example when my dad was a Boy Scout in the 1950's they wore the 'lemon squeezer', 'campaign', or 'smokey bear' style hat with their uniforms and kilts. From the photos it looks quite good as can a Tilley or flat brimmed olive/khaki cotton bush hat. It is a matter of personal taste but I find most other types of hats just don't look good with the kilt.

[Pleater]

I read a message on one of the knitting lists from someone who hand knits hose and received an order for - I think it was five pairs of hosen - to match a particular tartan, and the customer said they would drive over in 12 days time to collect them on the Friday morning so they could wear them for the wedding rehersal, the wedding being the next day.

As the lead time on the yarn was two to three weeks that wasn't going to happen.

The customer got quite upset.

Some things just take time.

Anne the Pleater :ootd: