Heasddress inside

[carlisle401]

Would just like your thoughts on this. The wearing of headdress inside and especially while eating. I am specifically thinking while wearing Highland Dress.

My own ways were was always to remove your head dress before entering a place to eat. My military days were exactly the same. After moving to the USA five years ago for retirement I am always amazed at I find several who wear a glengarry while eating.

Is it accepted here in the US or not?

[Tobus]

Some people like to pretend that it's still a big deal to remove one's headgear when they go indoors. The other 99.9% of the population doesn't care. Which leads me to believe, through observation, that the ones who make a big deal of it are only trying to impress themselves. Really, in most of America, the public has long since given up on caring about hats indoors. It doesn't even register on their radar.

I play it somewhere in the middle. Some hats I'll wear indoors, even while eating. Mostly ballcaps or other casual hats (I do wear my late grandfather's flatcap, but not with a kilt), and I think it's worse to take it off and sit there looking stupid with "hat hair". But large brimmed hats like a Tilley, I'll take off inside. Mainly because it just feels too large to wear indoors.

For some reason, though, I only wear a Balmoral outdoors. I even take it off when I get in the car for some reason.

[Father Bill]

If you have manners, take it off. That will never offend. Keeping it on might.

[plaid preacher]

The old adage is: Gentlemen uncover indoors. There is some ambiguity now, because of the proliferation of non-spaces: shopping malls, airports, concourses etc. The are indoors, but feel outdoors. Unless you are at a ball game and you are eating with your fingers, take your lid off!

[kingandrew]

i always wear a hat out of doors, regardless of how I'm dressed (of course, the hats vary to match the rest of my attire). This is partly out of a love of hats, a personal sense of style, and in recent years, the need to cover my bald spot from the sun.

I generally take off my hat indoors, especially when eating. There are situations, such as lugging bags around the airport, where I find it makes sense to keep it on due to not having a hand or place to keep it. However, I can't eat when my hands are full of suitcases, so that doesn't change my "hats off at the table" rule.

Eating at an outdoor BBQ or other outdoor event can be an exception, however. Especially if I have to eat standing up, with no place to set down my things.

One advantage of the bald spot is that I needn't worry about "hat hair." But my hair is curly, so it will never look completely controlled and simply running a hand through it returns it to its "afro" style of puffiness.

Andrew

[The Q]

Not n the US, but I was also taught to take a my hat off indoors, also being ex-military the only time to wear a hat indoors was when marching in on a charge or on bad weather drill practice in a hanger.

I seem to remember that the long corridors connecting buildings at RAF mount Pleasant in the Falklands were also designated as outdoors. Therefore for shopping malls, I also walk in the corridors hats on as outdoors, but enter a shop and it's hats off. If however we sat at a coffee in those corridor stalls / seating areas it's hats off.

The above applies to gloves as well of course.

[carlisle401]

Some people like to pretend that it's still a big deal to remove one's headgear when they go indoors. The other 99.9% of the population doesn't care. Which leads me to believe, through observation, that the ones who make a big deal of it are only trying to impress themselves. Really, in most of America, the public has long since given up on caring about hats indoors. It doesn't even register on their radar.

I play it somewhere in the middle. Some hats I'll wear indoors, even while eating. Mostly ballcaps or other casual hats (I do wear my late grandfather's flatcap, but not with a kilt), and I think it's worse to take it off and sit there looking stupid with "hat hair". But large brimmed hats like a Tilley, I'll take off inside. Mainly because it just feels too large to wear indoors.

For some reason, though, I only wear a Balmoral outdoors. I even take it off when I get in the car for some reason.

Baseball caps I have given up on a long time ago, Personally I still take mine off.

Was doing a charity as a Scottish American Military Society member with Marines and noticed they were quick to remove head dress before entering a eating place.

This question was about Highland Dress so removing your Balmoral sounded good to me and about eating inside.
Thanks for answering.