Sticks and Bonnets?

[ThistleDown]

Is that specific to the Canadian balmoral? I have a friend who is a regimental corporal of the Glasgow Highlanders, Highland Light Infantry (WWII) and he urged me to wear my WPG khaki balmoral cocked over the right ear. I also note that the Jacobite Scots blue bonnet is worn cocked over the right ear...with the white cockade over the left ear.

Aparently I've been looking in the mirror too long. Of course you are correct, but I've never seen a Balmoral in Scotland with a white cockade. They are traditionally black, but I suppose they could be replaced with white.

[DWFII]

Aparently I've been looking in the mirror too long. Of course you are correct, but I've never seen a Balmoral in Scotland with a white cockade. They are traditionally black, but I suppose they could be replaced with white.

[chuckle] I thought that might be the case! When I got my balmoral, the first thing I did was pull it over my left ear...as I was looking at myself in the mirror. Looked good to me!

As I understand it the white cockade is strictly Jacobite...in honour of BPC who plucked and wore a white rose on his bonnet when he stepped back onto Scottish soil. In any case that famous painting of Culloden shows, I believe, the white cockade.

[ThistleDown]

Ted. I have a friend who has an antler-headed stick about the same length as the shorter one I posted. It can't be folded up, of course, but it has a brass pointed tip that can be covered with a rubber one -- and he has had it finished in white because he has sight problems. Still and all, I think the graphite one you are using is pretty fine.

[Bugbear]

Ted. I have a friend who has an antler-headed stick about the same length as the shorter one I posted. It can't be folded up, of course, but it has a brass pointed tip that can be covered with a rubber one -- and he has had it finished in white because he has sight problems. Still and all, I think the graphite one you are using is pretty fine.

Ok, I will stick with the stick I have then. Thanks, ThistleDown.

Is there a bonnet that doesn't require the cockade and badge on the side?

[puffer]

IMHO, NONE DO. ( except maybe the "military bamoral")
I do not wear anything on my WPG TOS, & seldom wear any thing on my "glengary"

NOTE - only my "glengary" ( mil. issue ) is designed to take one.)

Puffer