Ghillie Hat

**TheOfficialBren** · 11th January 13, 05:10 AM

Seriously, Jock! Looking good, sir!

Thank you for your advice.

I am leaning toward a hat very similar to yours.

**TheOfficialBren** · 21st January 13, 01:46 AM

The other day I pulled the trigger on one of these:

http://www.scotweb.co.uk/products/all-wool-ghillie-hat/

These things look SHARP! I hope that it arrives soon. I am experiencing the 'jones.' If it's this bad for a hat then what shall I do when it is a kilt jones?! LOL!!

**creagdhubh** · 21st January 13, 03:39 PM

Originally Posted by TheOfficialBren

The other day I pulled the trigger on one of these:

http://www.scotweb.co.uk/products/all-wool-ghillie-hat/

These things look SHARP! I hope that it arrives soon. I am experiencing the 'jones.' If it's this bad for a hat then what shall I do when it is a kilt jones?! LOL!!

Very smart! I like it.

Cheers,

**TheOfficialBren** · 21st January 13, 03:52 PM

Thanks, mate.

Cheers.

**ronin6290** · 1st February 13, 07:26 AM

I'm glad I stumbled onto this thread. After looking at the above link I think I've been confusing the Ghillie hat with the Deerstalker? I recently sold a Barbour hat like the one above thinking it was a deerstalker. Do those wiser on the subject than myself have anything to offer in comparing the two? Many thanks!

**TheOfficialBren** · 1st February 13, 01:34 PM

Originally Posted by ronin6290

I'm glad I stumbled onto this thread. After looking at the above link I think I've been confusing the Ghillie hat with the Deerstalker? I recently sold a Barbour hat like the one above thinking it was a deerstalker. Do those wiser on the subject than myself have anything to offer in comparing the two? Many thanks!

From what I gather, "Ghillie Hat" is more of a trade name. The style is called a fore-and-aft hat. A deerstalker is a hunting hat similar in style but with earflaps.

A F-&-A hat is suitable for country or town wear but a deerstalker ismstrictly a country hat.

I could be mistaken on any of these points.

As Jock and others more in-the-know have said, neither hat is EVER called a "Sherlock Holmes" hat. I love Holmes, personally, but intend to wear mine (when it arrives) in a way that is completely un-Sherlock.

(Totally random fact: Holmes only wears the Deerstalker hat once in the original stories and usually goes hatless. Once or twice he wears what Watson calls a "cloth country cap." He never dons the Inverness cape, either. The Jeremy Brett portrayal was usually spot on with this.)

**Jock Scot** · 1st February 13, 01:52 PM

Just to put the record straight. Deerstalkers are quite at home being worn in a town and I don't recall saying that neither a fore'n aft or a deerstalker are"EVER" called a "Sherlock Holmes", as some merchants most certainly do describe them(with ear flaps) as such.

**TheOfficialBren** · 1st February 13, 02:05 PM

My apologies, Jock. I interpreted your post a while back as saying that they are not ever referred to as a Sherlock Holmes hat in Scotland.

Also, I was unaware that they are fine for town wear. Good to know. Thank you for setting the record straight, sir.

**ThistleDown** · 1st February 13, 02:11 PM

I'm sure that IS what Jock was saying, Bren. Calling a deerstalker a Sherlock Holmes is a bit like calling a cowboy hat a JR Ewing.

**ronin6290** · 1st February 13, 03:39 PM

Thanks guys.. some great information. A big Holmes fan here as-well. Yep my Barbour had the shape of the deerstalker however it lacked the ear flaps as you stated.