
Originally Posted by
DCampbell16B
A couple examples of ghillies. (Not trying to start something. Just an observation.)
All the bonnets are blue. Some lighter, some darker.
I make bonnets, simple crochet, in a few 'traditional' colours, black, grey and various shades of blue.
These days I usually wear one when away at folk festivals and over the last few years I have done fairly well selling the one I am wearing to those wanting to know where I got it. I suspect that as time passes there are fewer and fewer outlets for such things.
Of course as time passes more and more people think that 'Outlander' costumes are the real thing.
Anne the pleater
I presume to dictate to no man what he shall eat or drink or wherewithal he shall be clothed."
-- The Hon. Stuart Ruaidri Erskine, The Kilt & How to Wear It, 1901.
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