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    Personal preferred headgear for any outdoor event is hat with full brim. No need to sunburn the ears or anything else, unnecessarily.

    Long-sleeved "safari" shirts in British Tan, khaki and off white go well with the kilt and do have something odf a "near-issue" martial-ish look.

    (1) Tilley (with elliptical 3"+ brim and ventilated ring around top), (2) Equator 3" round brim and "Foreign Legion" optional drop-flap in back and (3) pressed fur felt Aussie Army bush hat cover most non-winter weather. All have a deployable chin-strap, should same be needed.

    NEVER a "baseball cap." (wrong face shape for the style)

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    Baseball Caps with kilt

    I started a thread about this that went on for pages. As a matter of fact, not opinion, this is done quite often in the U.S.A.

    I think I mentioned in that thread the Scottish Games I attended where two boys in pipe band uniforms donned baseball caps, and mitts and had a catch with a baseball between sets.

    It was a truly non-traditional, but quintessentially Scottish-American scene. I wear Scottish attire at the games to acknowledge my heritage, but do not adhere to tradition so severely as to eclipse my native culture, which is North American.

    Thus, the kilt with baseball cap. It is a modern Scottish-American phenomenon, and whether one agrees or disagrees with the aesthetics of it, it has become quite commonplace in the rebellious colonies.

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    An important distinction it would seem. I was curious about the bonnet, not necessarily the 'blue' bonnet, but the 'scots bonnet' (without toorie) in any color as a complement to the casual kilt outfit. As a longhair, I only ever wear a wide brim sun hat when not working (at which time it's under a hard hat), and tend to get picky about hats. In the past, various versions of driving cap and beret have found a comfortable home on top of this animal with nice results, and I understand this may be purely subjective, but just a clarification on acceptable interpretations of highland dress for my admittedly ignorant but willing mind...

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    I'll be going to the Central New York games on Saturday with temps in the 80s, dressed much like I am here, at left. I don't know if that helps. My Tilley hat is a must on hot, sunny days.

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    As a Scottish Infantry Vet, I can understand your predicament, especially in hot weather. Here in Phoenix it is always quite hot especially during the Highland games. As a Member of the Scottish American Military Society I wear my Regimental Trews (I was a lowlander), short armed khaki shirt and glengarry.

    As soon as my official duties are finished I change into kilt, tennis shirt and I wear a Bush hat with a Tartan patch on the same position as if I was wearing my TOS. I wore a Bush hat on operations in hot climates.

    If you haven't chosen a tartan yet, Each of the Service branches here in the US have their own tartans and they are very nice.

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    Jim,
    Thank you for your comments and advice. I'm still on the fence whether to purchase a family or service tartan. Based on the sentiment of every post I've read on this site is that I will end up with both!
    Also thanks for the education on trews. I had to research that term and learned a great deal about the Scottish military and recent friction with the imposition of kilts by the British military. And I thought we (U.S. Armed Forces) were the only ones with uniform issues!

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    Since Jock Scot has weighed in at great length about bonnets, in a highly negative manner, I feel obliged to present an alternative view.
    Bear in mind that Jock wore a Guardsman’s cap (among other military headgear, including a bearskin) when he was a soldier, so bonnets do not feature in his military experience.
    On the other hand I was so taken with the tam o’shanter I was issued with that I ordered a new one from Scotland, and wear it daily (as I sit at the office, it is next to me on the desk, ready to be worn against the winter chill).
    Its colour is bottle green. I plan to acquire a blue balmoral at some point in the future – royal blue, with a pale blue tourie.
    It will not have a white rosette. In fact I am not sure what I will wear on it aside from a metal badge.
    Royal blue is my favourite colour, but bottle green is a close second.
    While I have not worn my tam with a kilt for some time, I will wear it with a kilt in future, and I intend to purchase other bonnets, too.
    To me it is entirely proper to wear a bonnet (tam or balmoral, or [if it is your style; it is not mine] a glengarry) to an outdoor occasion like Highland games or a pipe band competition.
    In hot weather I would drop the bonnet and, instead, wear my broad-brimmed straw hat.
    But for me a bonnet is a default choice for everyday outdoor wear.
    For indoor occasions, of course, being bareheaded is the preferred mode. But I often take my bonnet with me because I want to keep my head warm afterwards.
    A baseball cap I would avoid like the plague.
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    I think you misunderstand Mike. I think the post that you might have in mind is where I was trying to get the points across, that alluded to the ones that I had made in earlier posts in this thread, in a purely educational way about the use of a ball/JD style cap with the kilt? I thought that I had made that perfectly clear and I used the word "bonnet" in that particular case, as we do in Scotland on occasion, as a general term for a hat(in this case a ball/John Deere style cap), not in your rather more narrow interpretation for a tam, or balmoral. I hope that clears up any misunderstanding and please understand that I had no intention in being "negative" about anything and I apologise forthwith, if I have given an impression that I have not intended.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jock Scot View Post
    I used the word "bonnet" in that particular case, as we do in Scotland, as a general term for a hat
    Ah, I think this may be an error of ignorance I have made in my own queries in this thread, and for that I must apologize.
    Not to swell your hat size (pardon the pun!), but I have appreciated your input in my short time here as a person of your particular insight. I just re-read the thread and haven't found anything scathing or off-putting.
    "We are all connected...to each other, biologically; to the earth, chemically; to the universe, atomically...and that makes me smile." - Neil deGrasse Tyson

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