What's On Your Bonnet?

[Nile]

My balmoral has a little round red ball on top of it; don't know where it came from but, I like it. (Toorie-oorie-ay)

But seriously, I have an indigo balmoral with a black ribbon cockade upon which I have pinned a pewter 'Fraser of Lovat' badge. I have placed a fresh picked dandelion in it a couple of times, but they wilt quickly and the stems bleed a milky sap that is sticky. Recently purchased one of the silk dandelions from our XMTS store.

I've also placed a strawberry leaf (Fraser clan, plant badge) above the badge but, they wilt too so, I'm looking for an artificial version of that as well.

Nile

[Ethanintn]

There certainly are some neat things that you guys wear on your Balmorals and the like.

Thank-you and stand sure,

Ethan Walling

[MacGuffin]

I have a cloth red poppy on my vintage glengerry cap and my olive balmoral cap. Sometimes I wear a hackle or an old badger hair pin to spruce it up a bit. Though my black balmoral has an old Argyle & Sutherland badge I believe.

[OC Richard]

On my Balmoral (which I've been wearing since the 1980s) I sewed a white cockade over the black one, and wear a smaller-sized MacDonald clan badge on it.

Last Easter I picked up a small palm cross at a church I was piping at and tucked it behind the badge.

On my band Glengarry (plain black) is a generic firefighter cap badge. I'm not a fireman but it's the badge the band issued to me (the Long Beach Fire Dept Pipe Band).

Then I have a Black Watch piper's Glengarry, plain dark blue, scarlet tourie, with a Black Watch cap badge worn directly on the hat (no cockade) as per regimental custom.

I can't remember what badge I have on my feather bonnet... I haven't worn that thing in quite a while!

About not wearing a hat, when you're paid to perform on the pipes it's expected that you appear in full kit and I always wear either Balmoral or Glengarry. When simply wearing the kilt as an attendee I either go hatless or if it's sunny a baseball cap.