Flat Caps. No no and thrice no! Suitable hats when wearing your kilt. Discuss

[NancyMan]

Hats I wear with a kilt: ascot, balmoral, beret, curling tam, flat cap, glengarry, ivy league and newsboy- in solid colours, tweed and tartan, diced or not. Without counting I can say I have between thirty and forty caps. (I have a roughly equivalent number of kilts and smoking pipes.) When I lost my hair I figured it was God's way of saying "Thou shalt wear a hat from now on."

Hats I do not wear with a kilt: ball cap, cowboy, or fedora. (Sadly, I have many fedoras that have collected dust since I took to full time kilt wearing.)

On occasion I have worn a top hat with a kilt but its a difficult look to pull off.

For me clothes are wearable art and I have a great enough range of kilts and accessories to create a completely unique look every time I step out of the door. The hat as well as everything else must contribute to a unified and coordinated style that gets confirmed in the hallway mirror prior to each outing. Heck, I even coordinate the pipe I'm going to be smoking with my evening's ensemble.

Without question, tradition informs my choice in dress, head wear included. But I don't live in the past and my fashion sense compels me to create a contemporary look for here and now.

[Zardoz]

Without question, tradition informs my choice in dress, head wear included. But I don't live in the past and my fashion sense compels me to create a contemporary look for here and now.

Well put!

My new hobby is to get a new vintage or newsboy from Hanna Hats every couple months, and wear them often!

[Jack Daw]

Well put!

My new hobby is to get a new vintage or newsboy from Hanna Hats every couple months, and wear them often!

I have one of those, too!

[Jock Scot]

Hats I wear with a kilt: ascot, balmoral, beret, curling tam, flat cap, glengarry, ivy league and newsboy- in solid colours, tweed and tartan, diced or not. Without counting I can say I have between thirty and forty caps. (I have a roughly equivalent number of kilts and smoking pipes.) When I lost my hair I figured it was God's way of saying "Thou shalt wear a hat from now on."

Hats I do not wear with a kilt: ball cap, cowboy, or fedora. (Sadly, I have many fedoras that have collected dust since I took to full time kilt wearing.)

On occasion I have worn a top hat with a kilt but its a difficult look to pull off.

For me clothes are wearable art and I have a great enough range of kilts and accessories to create a completely unique look every time I step out of the door. The hat as well as everything else must contribute to a unified and coordinated style that gets confirmed in the hallway mirror prior to each outing. Heck, I even coordinate the pipe I'm going to be smoking with my evening's ensemble.

Without question, tradition informs my choice in dress, head wear included. But I don't live in the past and my fashion sense compels me to create a contemporary look for here and now.

I would just like to point out that the kilt and its attached attire is alive and well today and perhaps we in Scotland could be accused off "freezing" kilt fashions, but it works for us now, today. So the contempory look is already with us!