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    I'm with you Jock !

    If I wear a Balmoral, I wear it without dicing. No offence intended or taken but I DO accept Elizabeth as my Queen but prefer my Balmoral plain... with ties a-flyin'... And I'm married too. There's no politics in that either.

    To answer the OP. I also wear a canvas or rooskin bush hat if it's hot (I burn easy... It's the Ginger Celt in me), but more often than not, I'm bare-headed. I have a plain black glengarry too. Although I think it's one of the coolest hats I've ever owned, I've only worn it once meeself, it emphasises a "pipe-band" look I'm not really after although I think they are fine on other folks.

    I am a man of many hats, from pith helmets to Roman Centurion's helmet, from Russian Red Army to Davy Crockett. I've not found one that I'd routinely wear while Kilted though.

    I must create a photo-thread of my drinking hat collection sometime... While kilted of course. That would be fun to put together. int:

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    Quote Originally Posted by English Bloke View Post
    I must create a photo-thread of my drinking hat collection sometime... While kilted of course.
    I'd like to see that, John.

    I usually wear a Balmoral when kilted. I have two -- one black and one "fawn" by Robert Mackie from Chris at Dunnad Trading Co. Both have matching toories, bands and cockades; both have the ribbons neatly tied and neither is diced. I wear my clan's cap badge in antiqued pewter on the black one and have an embroidered badge on order for the fawn.
    Many of my clan prefer a plain Glengarry with a white rosette cockade and loose ribbons. I may add one to my arsenal just so I can be "in uniform" for clan tent duty at games.
    I also very much like Jock's straw Fedora(?), Panama(?), Crusher(?). It looks like it would be nice for warmer weather and casual wear.
    I have several ball caps and two Resistol "cowboy" hats, one straw and one felt, but don't wear them when kilted, for the same reason I don't wear short socks with the kilt (shudder). OK for some, but not for me.
    My dad has worn flat caps for as long as I can remember. They work for him, but not for me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by English Bloke View Post
    If I wear a Balmoral, I wear it without dicing. No offence intended or taken but I DO accept Elizabeth as my Queen but prefer my Balmoral plain... with ties a-flyin'... And I'm married too. There's no politics in that either.
    I accept no sovereign, but my tastes in wearing the Balmoral are similar to yours. I like the tails a-flyin', even though I'm married, and I do not like the looks of dicing. It reminds me of big-city police hats (New York, Chicago, etc.). And Glengarries just look too military for my tastes. But actually, I go bare-headed most of the time when I'm kilted.

    On the rare occasion that I decide to wear a hat with a traditional kilt, it's usually the Balmoral. If it's really hot and I'm feeling humorous, maybe a sun helmet (I'd love a real pith helmet):




    When wearing a non-traditional kilt, though, I'll wear any hat. Usually I'm wearing non-traditional kilts for rough outdoor stuff like backpacking or working around my homestead. So a comfortable ballcap works just fine, or even a boonie hat (sorry, I don't have any pics of me wearing that with a kilt):


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    Quote Originally Posted by English Bloke View Post
    I am a man of many hats, from pith helmets to Roman Centurion's helmet, from Russian Red Army to Davy Crockett. I've not found one that I'd routinely wear while Kilted though.

    I must create a photo-thread of my drinking hat collection sometime... While kilted of course. That would be fun to put together. int:
    Please do. And I request you start with the rooskin bush hat. (More curious about the hat than how it looks with a kilt.) Did you get that down under?
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    Quote Originally Posted by English Bloke View Post
    I must create a photo-thread of my drinking hat collection sometime... While kilted of course. That would be fun to put together. int:
    Add me to the chorus.... YES!
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    Quote Originally Posted by English Bloke View Post
    I'm with you Jock !

    If I wear a Balmoral, I wear it without dicing. No offence intended or taken but I DO accept Elizabeth as my Queen but prefer my Balmoral plain... with ties a-flyin'... And I'm married too. There's no politics in that either.

    To answer the OP. I also wear a canvas or rooskin bush hat if it's hot (I burn easy... It's the Ginger Celt in me), but more often than not, I'm bare-headed. I have a plain black glengarry too. Although I think it's one of the coolest hats I've ever owned, I've only worn it once meeself, it emphasises a "pipe-band" look I'm not really after although I think they are fine on other folks.

    I am a man of many hats, from pith helmets to Roman Centurion's helmet, from Russian Red Army to Davy Crockett. I've not found one that I'd routinely wear while Kilted though.

    I must create a photo-thread of my drinking hat collection sometime... While kilted of course. That would be fun to put together. int:
    John , I was surprised and impressed that an " English Bloke " would have a Davey Crockett coonskin cap .

    The Davey Crockett coonskin cap has always begged the question - did we colonials make a cap out of a full face racoon sporran or did we make a sporran out of a racoon cap ?

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    This is the only hat I ever wear most places I go and whatever I'm doing ...




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