To bonnet or not to bonnet, that is the question

[Sir Didymous]

You wear the kilt outside Scotland in a country of a multitude of cultures, few of which understand the kilt -------and you worry about a toorie?

Honestly I realy don't put much stock in how the unkilted community thinks I look while kilting, I personally don't care for toories. Though I can see the irony if it were a matter of caring about the opinions of the various peoples who don't understand kilts. I have considered a beret, but I think it feels like I was just settling on the closest thing I could find.

[Nathan]

Why not just buy a beret?

Or a caubeen if you want to get even closer.

[Sir Didymous]

That has possibilities.

[David Thorpe]

Honestly I realy don't put much stock in how the unkilted community thinks I look while kilting, I personally don't care for toories. Though I can see the irony if it were a matter of caring about the opinions of the various peoples who don't understand kilts. I have considered a beret, but I think it feels like I was just settling on the closest thing I could find.

Most people wouldn't know whether your Balmoral was supposed to have a toorie or not. Only those familiar with traditional Highland dress might notice its absence.

[ThistleDown]

Is this really such a big problem, Sir Didy? Read the posts by Jock Scot and David Thorpe: if you want to appear in public in traditional Highland dress and wish to have your head covered (for whatever reason) wear a Balmoral. If you don't like the traditional toorie on the traditional Balmoral, lose it. If you don't care what observers think, wear a slab of bacon up there, but not a beret for heaven's sake.

[OC Richard]

Usually a Tilley.

A couple people have mentioned this, but I don't know what it is.

EDIT: OK I Googled "tilley hat" and I see it's not a style but a Canadian company

http://www.tilley.com/Hats.aspx

The sheepskin-lined old-fashioned aviator's hat (bomber hat) is one option, I see... not one I would think of as looking good with a kilt!

[creagdhubh]

Is this really such a big problem, Sir Didy? Read the posts by Jock Scot and David Thorpe: if you want to appear in public in traditional Highland dress and wish to have your head covered (for whatever reason) wear a Balmoral. If you don't like the traditional toorie on the traditional Balmoral, lose it. If you don't care what observers think, wear a slab of bacon up there, but not a beret for heaven's sake.

Hahaha! Well put, Rex.

[Nathan]

A couple people have mentioned this, but I don't know what it is.

EDIT: OK I Googled "tilley hat" and I see it's not a style but a Canadian company

http://www.tilley.com/Hats.aspx

The sheepskin-lined old-fashioned aviator's hat (bomber hat) is one option, I see... not one I would think of as looking good with a kilt!

I didn't know about that company. I always thought of them as the Australian hats with the snaps on the side like this:
http://www.australiangear.com/tilley...k-natural.html

[TheOfficialBren]

$117 AUD?! Yikes!!

:-O

[creagdhubh]

$117 AUD?! Yikes!!

:-O

Pretty close to the cost of Mackie made Balmoral too! But, you buy it once and you never have to buy one again...unless of course you desire bonnets in multiple colours.