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    That's a tough one!

    I would say to get a well-made Robert Mackey Glengarry and derive the pattern from that.

    I doubt that a commercial pattern from McCalls or Simplicity or what have you would have the correct shape. All of the patterns I've seen, of stuff I know about, like Scottish jackets and historical military jackets and so forth, have had entirely the wrong cut.

    A quick Google produced this. The hat itself is pretty good, though certainly lower than the Glengarries of the 1850s, but as you see the cockade is oddly shaped and too far forward

    http://www.amazon.com/1850s-1860s-Gl.../dp/B009SX3M2S

    The early Glengarries from the 1840s were higher than today's, then by the 1860s they had evolved to our modern shape. In between, in the 1870s through around 1900, they got smaller and lower and skimpier, before returning to their old 1860s size.

    Of course Glengarries aren't cut from woven cloth and sewn together, they're knit and shaped. Anything pieced together from woven yardage wouldn't be a "Glengarry" per se, but an approximation, or costume version, of one, it seems to me.
    Last edited by OC Richard; 6th December 15 at 07:24 AM.
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