Bowler hat?

[Jock Scot]

I guess I'd need to see the combination to know for sure - but the bowler does have a humble and useful beginning...

The bowler was invented by Thomas William Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester of Holkham Hall in Norfolk ..and his St James hatter. He required a sturdy hat for his Head keeper and some twenty staff to wear that would be hardwearing, easily identifiable and comfortable. It was intended as a riding hat - providing hard hat protection as they rode through his protectorate looking out for poachers. It was only later that the hat found its way into the city being adopted first by street merchants and finally finding its way onto the heads of bankers in pin-striped suits.

The gamekeepers at Holkham Hall still, to this day, proudly wear their bowlers.

[Paraplegic Racehorse]

Depending on my mood, I wear one of the following hats with my kilt(s) and nobody says boo:

• ball cap; NAPA Racing - Dale Earnhardt, filthy
• "golf" cap; unknown brand, tan tweed
• Greek fisherman's cap; no brand (hand-made in Greece), gray
• stocking cap; Carhardt, knit, black
• fedora; Indiana Jones style, gray, horribly filthy w/holes
• bowler; Stacy Adams, black
• coming soon - top hat; white w/black band

In short, wear what you like. If you wear it with confidence and panache, you will get nothing but compliments!

[cacunn]

If you wear it with confidence and panache, you will get nothing but compliments!

Do you really think Panache is going to have enough time to be able to be with everyone who wears a hat?

[James MacMillan]

I'm trying to get a handle on this thread. A bowler hat is something you wear while bowling?

[Chef]

I'm trying to get a handle on this thread. A bowler hat is something you wear while bowling?

I assume you're kidding James but just on the possibility that your not:

The Bowler:

[James MacMillan]

I assume you're kidding James but just on the possibility that your not:

The Bowler:

Yup, I was kidding! I was also mentally picturing Laural and Hardy in kilts...........

[berserkbishop]

I have been known to wear a bandanna with my kilts and I have heard no one squabble over that. When it comes right down to it people are going to like or dislike what you wear and theres going to be nothing you can do about it, but if you are going to wear a kilt you have to be willing to be a "fashion" trend setter anyway. BTW, any opinions on a bandanna with a kilt?

[fluter]

Yup, I was kidding! I was also mentally picturing Laural and Hardy in kilts...........

Courtesy of Big Paul: http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/s...47&postcount=7

[kiltimabar]

The gamekeepers at Holkham Hall still, to this day, proudly wear their bowlers.

With kilts?