I'm off to my brother-in-law's wedding in the Czech Republic in August. A while back, I bought a plain Glengarry hat to which I've attached a clan crest badge (Lovat Fraser) and some pheasant feathers. It all looks rather grand and sets off my outfit no end.

However, while I was in the shop in Edinburgh buying it, I overheard one of the salesman say to another customer that one should never wear a Glengarry with a diced (red & white) banding unless you have been in a Scottish regiment. This is the sort of thing I mean:

http://scottishweddingstore.net/sr_l...lengarry_diced

Now, personally, it hadn't crossed my mind to buy a diced hat, nice-looking as they are, but it did make me wonder...

When it was my time to be served, I asked more about the whole 'army thing'. It turns out, that the salesman had, himself, been in the army and had heard of some ex-army chaps getting rather hot under the collar with diced band wearers over the years, feeling that it was only the right of an ex-serviceman to wear this particular adornment. The rest of us, so it seemed, would have to do with the plainer version.

I've asked around Scot's family and friends and, funnily enough, a lot of them had heard that this was the correct protocol.

Any thoughts?

Cheers

Bruce