A serious thread about hats with kilts in the USA

**James Hood** · 27th March 14, 05:02 PM

For daywear, ALWAYS a hat with a real brim. Tilleys, Equator, Aussie military issue bush (THE best), French Foreign Legion, even a Stetson or flat-top cowboy type.

Not only do baseball caps make this writer's IQ appear to drop about 70 points, but they offer too little protection to, what a humourous colleague of hue calls, "Pasty-afs white boy skin," who uses SPF 50 sunscreen and collects brimmed hats.

**McMurdo** · 27th March 14, 05:36 PM

Okay another Canadian perspective here and admittedly I am a bit of a traditionalist. I do not like baseball caps at all, and think the only people who should wear them are professional baseball players and perhaps children. As you can guess I do not wear a baseball cap at all. A serious thread though deserves a serious post so please know that the above is simply my opinion, we all have those.

So why shouldn't you wear a ball cap and a kilt? When I was growing up men wore hats and boys wore caps perhaps that is where it stems from for me however, I think another reason is that you say you are Scottish American. What I mean is this, the baseball cap may be ubiquitous in the United States, however, if you wish to wear the National dress of Scotland perhaps putting an American spin on it is a bit incongruous. I know you will do what you want but from someone who wore the kilt daily for 5 years I think it simply shows bad form.

**SeumasA** · 27th March 14, 06:06 PM

It's been said several times already, but wear what you're comfortable in. I usually wear this when I'm out in the sun (or rain, or snow or....) whether I'm kilted or not.

**McElmurry** · 27th March 14, 07:06 PM

Originally Posted by Panache

Number 3

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...estions-68680/

ith:

Jamie

I almost linked that this morning but I am glad you came along and linked it.

Messing with another mans hat is indefezible.

**Hawk** · 27th March 14, 10:10 PM

And yet another example.....

Hawk

After an 8 hour day on my feet at work...I look a bit tired....

**mookien** · 27th March 14, 10:25 PM

Hawk: Lookin' good. I like that turned-up brim on one side - kind of an American balmoral.

John

**ForresterModern** · 28th March 14, 04:29 PM

Of all the caps, bonnets, and hats I own, probably the two types of hat I can think of that I would NOT personally wear with the kilt, it would have to be a baseball cap, and a dunce cap. Beyond that I am probably game to give it a go, or likely probably have. I have nothing against ball caps, lord knows I have more than I can count, but to my eye I do not look good in one with the kilt. The dunce cap---well lets just say I wore that enough times growing up that I would rather not be seen in that again.

Okay, I thought of another one---my bike helmet--but that is only because I have not biked in a kilt------yet.

**Son of the Rock** · 28th March 14, 05:03 PM

As a Scot (and one of the only people on this island that's into baseball), I'd probably do it without too much hesitation, and there's a slight change that I have inadvertently done so at some point (although I can't remember doing so, so probably not), just because I wear it so much that it has become habitual. I'm not sure how my fellow Scots feel about it, as I haven't really been back to Scotland much since I started wearing my trusty Yomiuri Giants cap. At the same time, I may not choose to wear it at all with a kilt in the future, as I think other hats match a little better (although, I wouldn't rule it out completely). I suppose my point is, I think that if people want the kilt to be seen as something you can wear, because you want to, and not just for special occasions, then one should also be allowed more freedom in what to wear with it on casual, everyday occasions. If you're comfortable with it, then I don't think you should worry about it too much.

**McElmurry** · 28th March 14, 06:58 PM

I normally only wear a baseball style hat while sailing on days when it is too windy for a BFH (big floppy hat). So yea I can see myself wearing a kilt and a baseball cap screwed down tight while beating up the slot into a forty knot wind. At that point the hat would be the least of my worries.

**Benning Boy** · 28th March 14, 07:01 PM

When you guys are talking about flat caps do you have something like this in mind:

http://www.sdworkwear.co.uk/products...RTING-CAP.html

Or, are you thinking this:

http://www.bencrafthats.com/product....subcname=Capas

I've seen the first kind referred to as flat caps or driving caps. When I was young we called them sports car caps.

The second style, newsboy caps, are sometimes 8/4 caps. There are many old pictures of gentlemen in kilts wearing this type of cap, including Prince Edward, Victoria's son. To my eye these are more traditional than the driving cap.

Both styles could be called flat caps. Maybe I missed, but are we talking one kind, or the other?