Jock's New Balmoral

[Jock Scot]

Miracles do happen!My new bonnet supplied by our very own Redshanks who runs the "Dunad Trading Company" http://dunadtrading.co.uk. There is a story to all this, but first a picture or two.

To my non artistic eyes the colour is "duck egg green" to those that know, apparently the colour is "fawn". It does depend on the light a bit.

The front.



The back.



Right then the story. I had been searching for a new bonnet for a fair time now, but could I find the colour that I wanted? No way! Chris(Redshanks) who I had not met or even talked too before sent me a PM offering to help. Yes please was the reply and to cut a long story short, he took my old bonnet to Robert Mackie the hat makers to compare colours. It turns out that my old balmoral some thirty years old, was a Robert Mackie and once they had got over the shock of how abused the bonnet was, they offered to make one of that same colour. What service! I have now a personal and bespoke bonnet maker by the name of Paula! Thank you Paula, you have done a first class job.Thank you Chris(Redshanks) for the trouble that you taken over this for me. It is rare to find these days such attention to detail and service.

The build quality of these bonnets are just as good as they were 30 years ago, they are without doubt the "Rolls Royce" of bonnets and are worth every penny of the very reasonable price tag. Well done "Dunad Trading co."!

Watch this space, in the next few days I will take you through Jocks balmoral bonnet customizing process with some pictures. Paula, can I suggest you don't look!