Just ordered a Balmoral

**Mike S** · 13th April 18, 06:26 AM

Originally Posted by tokareva

When the hat gets here I intend to add a badge or pin of some kind. Since I have no known Scottish heritage I thought maybe a Welsh dragon would be nice. This one measures 1-3/4 X 1-1/8 . If anybody has a better idea please let me know.

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What vendor is selling this pin? Having both Scottish AND Welsh ancestry, I'd like to sport one of those myself.

**tokareva** · 13th April 18, 11:40 AM

Originally Posted by Mike S

What vendor is selling this pin? Having both Scottish AND Welsh ancestry, I'd like to sport one of those myself.

On Etsy

https://www.etsy.com/listing/9194170...sr_gallery-1-8

They also have a smaller more expensive one in silver.
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**tokareva** · 26th April 18, 02:47 PM

Well the hat finally arrived, it's nice and it fits great, but to me it doesn't look like what I ordered. I thought it was going to be a lighter color with more of a cream - yellowish tint. It has what I would call an orangish tint, somewhat like red clay mud. Did they send me the wrong hat, or is this what they are really supposed to look like?

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The pic below appears close to the advertised color but it's not the color of the hat ,the flash was on and the exposure is wrong,maybe that's what happened in the online pics also.
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Here is what I ordered.
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I wonder what the British khaki version looks like in real life.
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**Tobus** · 27th April 18, 04:48 AM

You're certainly not the first person to realise that the colour of your item doesn't look the same in person as it did in the online photo. It happens all the time with kilts, jackets, heck, anything.

Too many people rely on flash photography for their photos, and it just doesn't give anyone a realistic image of the colours. Flash is a strong white light that casts stark shadows. It's terrible for photos of anything with colour (and it doesn't do any favours to peoples' faces either). Personally, when I become king of the world, I'm going to ban flash photography for everything but crime-scene photos, LOL. Everyone else should use soft indirect light or diffused outdoor natural light.

At any rate, you may want to try 'Jocking' your Balmoral. A bit of the colour may possibly fade out, especially if you leave it out in the sun after wearing it dry. On mine, the colour you see in the advertisement is actually pretty accurate to where mine ended up. I don't see any orange at all in it. It's just a faded tan/khaki.

**Me cousin Jack** · 27th April 18, 07:11 AM

Bury it in peat for a year

**tokareva** · 27th April 18, 04:41 PM

Originally Posted by Tobus

You're certainly not the first person to realise that the colour of your item doesn't look the same in person as it did in the online photo. It happens all the time with kilts, jackets, heck, anything.

Too many people rely on flash photography for their photos, and it just doesn't give anyone a realistic image of the colours. Flash is a strong white light that casts stark shadows. It's terrible for photos of anything with colour (and it doesn't do any favours to peoples' faces either). Personally, when I become king of the world, I'm going to ban flash photography for everything but crime-scene photos, LOL. Everyone else should use soft indirect light or diffused outdoor natural light.

At any rate, you may want to try 'Jocking' your Balmoral. A bit of the colour may possibly fade out, especially if you leave it out in the sun after wearing it dry. On mine, the colour you see in the advertisement is actually pretty accurate to where mine ended up. I don't see any orange at all in it. It's just a faded tan/khaki.

Ok ,Thanks Tobus, I guess I'll just keep it and put it on the hat tray in the car and flip it over now and then to fade it evenly. I don't think it would be cost effective to try and exchange it. Frankly with that company I doubt it would even be an option. I couldn't even find anything on their website mentioning returns or exchanges, I really wonder how they stay in business.

**Baeau** · 27th April 18, 04:58 PM

Originally Posted by tokareva

Ok ,Thanks Tobus, I guess I'll just keep it and put it on the hat tray in the car and flip it over now and then to try and evenly fade it. I don't think it would be cost effective to try and exchange it. Frankly with that company I doubt it would even be an option. I couldn't even find anything on their website mentioning returns or exchanges, I really wonder how it stays in business.

Having been a peddler, most of my life, I went looking on the website. This may be the first company I've run across that has no return, refund, let's make it right policy. The owner states, "proudly serving", but that's it. Even the odd Etsy sites my daughters have purchased from offer a means to take care of issues.

**PatrickHughes123** · 4th June 18, 03:22 PM

Originally Posted by tokareva

Well the hat finally arrived, it's nice and it fits great, but to me it doesn't look like what I ordered. I thought it was going to be a lighter color with more of a cream - yellowish tint. It has what I would call an orangish tint, somewhat like red clay mud. Did they send me the wrong hat, or is this what they are really supposed to look like?

P1030563_kindlephoto-1128925741.jpg
P1030564.jpg

The pic below appears close to the advertised color but it's not the color of the hat ,the flash was on and the exposure is wrong,maybe that's what happened in the online pics also.
P1030565_kindlephoto-1129148277.jpg

Here is what I ordered.
balmoral_tan (1).jpg

I wonder what the British khaki version looks like in real life.
balmoral_khaki.jpg

Yeah, this happened to me. I ordered a Stewart tartan Balmoral bonnet on Ebay but it looked different in real life. In the Ebay page, it showed an image of a Stewart balmoral with black ribbons, a black cockade and a black base line but it had none of those.