Jumping on the bonnet bandwagon!

**Woodsheal** · 21st March 10, 03:08 PM

'Tis the season for new balmorals! I wasn't really in the market for one, but then I noticed that The House of Labhran had a unique color scheme: Cameronian Rifles!

This is a "rifle green" bonnet with black torrie and headband. I once had an original issue one, ca. 1960 (the regiment is long gone), but that one went to our good friend and moderator Arlen, 'cause his granddad served in the regiment. A perfect home for it, but I've always missed it!

Now I've ordered a new one just like it. They have them made by the original bonnet makers to that regiment. Can't wait...!

**longhuntr74** · 22nd March 10, 03:39 AM

Ya know...you're really making it hard for me to resist spending money!!!! Go ahead and post the pics anyways when you get it!

**Woodsheal** · 22nd March 10, 04:33 AM

Originally Posted by longhuntr74

Ya know...you're really making it hard for me to resist spending money!!!! Go ahead and post the pics anyways when you get it!

I will! After it gets the "Jock Scot" treatment...!

**NewEnglander** · 22nd March 10, 05:07 AM

Ha! I didn't know I was being trendy, but my first bonnet arrived in the post last week too. Mine is actually tweed so I'm guessing that I won't be able to use the Jock Torture Treatment.

**dfmacliam** · 22nd March 10, 07:17 AM

When I make my way back to my caravan, I have a caubeen I plan on giving it the Jock treatment....

**rsvpiper** · 22nd March 10, 09:54 AM

Got my fawn balmoral from them last year nice bit of kit Enjoy

**piperdbh** · 22nd March 10, 12:09 PM

Make sure you Jock those bonnets properly!

**ForresterModern** · 22nd March 10, 01:30 PM

Originally Posted by piperdbh

Make sure you Jock those bonnets properly!

Okay, Jock, you now have officially entered the xmarks vernacular with your name being used as a verb, as by piper above:

jock (jawk) to soak one's balmoral bonnet in a stream, wear it and pull on it to customize and personalize its overall shape and size to one's personal preferences, as in "to jock one's bonnet"

Kind of like Jimmy Carbomb coining the term "tank" for a heavyweight 8yd handsewn kilt.

**piperdbh** · 22nd March 10, 02:09 PM

I wish I could take credit for it, but New Guise coined the term in the thread about Jock's new bonnet:

This thread suggests a new verb: jock, v. - trans. to break in a new woolen bonnet through extensive abuse, including drowning in a burn. "I need to jock my new bespoke Balmoral."

[Could give rise to extended uses, as in "The kilt police got 'im - jocked 'im out back."]