Yah...I've bookmarked them as well...the Balmorals look pretty choice and I was thinking of getting one for me and one for my daughter for Christmas.
Good resource...thanks for the heads up.
I've spoken to this guy through email a couple of times. He started the business because he had been trying to find a full dress piper's uniform for his son. He was so shocked by the price of doublets, etc that he started trying to find less expensive alternatives. After much research he came up with the products on his site. If you click "about us" at the site it will tell you the whole story.
Hmmm, that's interesting. When I went to the web to find out where the Glengarry came from, I found this bit of trivia on Scotweb Store,
"Some wearers of the Balmoral used to wear it puffed up on the head and creased down the middle, which became a new style of hat called the Glengarry. By late Victorian times the British Army had adopted this type of hat for their working uniforms..."
So, is there any important tradition associated with this style of headwear? ...or is it now simply another Scottish hat to wear?
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