blue bonnet?

[Woodsheal]

As said, just about any position is "period correct." I like to tug the bonnet forward to shade my face, with the cockade on the top surface:



In this period image, Lord George Murray has a more "modern" tilt to his bonnet, with the cockade on the left side:

[DWFII]

I thank all you fellers. I understand that it's pretty much "as you please" but if there's something that's "off," let me know...please. I don't want to be "period correct" necessarily but I don't want to be completely "bob," either.

[Jack Daw]

I have a couple of period blue bonnets. The one without a white cockade I wear flat; and, the one other I pull to the side to accommodate the cockade.

[Derek Conley]

Old paintings would probably be the best source if you can google any up somehow.

This famous Jacobite painting is probably fairly new, but hopefully the artist researched the blue bonnet placement...



Ron

Ron, can you tell me the name of this illustration and the artist? That's phenomenal.

[Woodsheal]

That painting is "The Jacobite" by current artist Robert Griffing:
http://www.lordnelsons.com/gallery/f...riffing/40.htm

The problem with it is something all too common amongst reenactors of that period: combining a poor clansman's clothes (only a shirt and a belted plaid) with a clan gentleman's weapons (fine broadsword, elegant fowling piece). A highlander able to afford such weaponry would not be running around in his shirtsleeves! A waistcoat and coat would be in evidence with a fighting man of this class:

[Pleater]

I suspect that the British workman's flat cap is the direct descendant of the bonnet - though the flat cap is still worn by almost all classes at various times, the exception being some middle class gents who rather fall between two stools.

It is not worn solely by men, though ladies like ones with a slightly softer style, and they tend to keep them cleaner and neater than the men too.

I have noted that servicemen in the desert tend to shape their berets so as to shade their eyes, so making them into the same shape as a flat cap, or exactly like the one in Woodsheal's post, though working with a smaller dome of fabric.

I wear berets, and when I make/get a new one I always have to felt it, or just wet it, press it in a towel to remove the surplus water, then put it on damp and pull it into the shape I want. Otherwise it tries to retain the circular shape it was made rather than the oval and folded down one side shape I want to wear it in.

Anne the Pleater

[Derek Conley]

That painting is "The Jacobite" by current artist Robert Griffing:

Thank you!

[puddlemuddle]

even though I think that it is correct to wear it any way you want to...I would still avoid any type of drastic angling similar to how modern Berets are worn..Maybe square on the head with a little tilt to it, or pulled forward...remember that bonnet of the period wasn't just a "fashion statement" as much as it was a functional article of clothing, usually worn to not only keep the head warm, but the sun and rain off! I think pulled forward is a little more Jacobity
Cheers,
Chad

[Woodsheal]

I think pulled forward is a little more Jacobity

Jacobitish?

[Jack Daw]

Jacobitish?

Jacobitoid.