Differences between Tam O'Shanter vs Balmoral

[puffer]

I don't know why I didn't post this article sooner:

http://www.stewarton.org/History/Bonnets.htm

Interesting reading, if nothing else.

T.

Great Info. Thanks

1 thing I found interesting was the Wt. of the caps = 1# 15oz. ith:

Puffer

[Longshaor]

This may seem a daft question, but I know very little about the military regulations surrounding the ToS. I have a small collections of tartan squares with hat badges attached, but the none of the tartans seem to have the rigidity of those seen in WWII period photos. Obviously I'm missing something here, can some one please fill me in?

[Nervous Jock]

This may seem a daft question, but I know very little about the military regulations surrounding the ToS. I have a small collections of tartan squares with hat badges attached, but the none of the tartans seem to have the rigidity of those seen in WWII period photos. Obviously I'm missing something here, can some one please fill me in?

It depends what period you're talking about

[Longshaor]

Time period would be the shortly before WW II to shortly after. An example of what I'm talking about would be on page 293 of "The Scottish Regiments: 1633-1996" which shows a soldier of the 1st Argylls on sentry duty in Jerusalem in 1947. The tartan patch his hat pin is mounted on clearly extends past the top of his ToS. Another good one would be the frontspiece of the book showing a soldier of the Camerons in 1945. I'd also mention the cover of the book "Moon over Malaya", showing a motorcyclist of the 2nd Argylls before the fall of Singapore. Any ideas?

[DWFII]

I've seen that, and I like it. Since many of those patches were, as far as I know (and I'm certainly no expert) simply swatches from the regimental tartan (I have several BW bonnet patches), I think they must have mounted them on another piece of cloth to achieve that rigidity.

So...why couldn't you do the same? Or even double the thickness with perhaps a piece of fusable interfacing between them? I zig-zagged around the perimeter of mine to prevent it from fraying and then I basted it to the side of my TOS...all but one corner where I occasionally stick a sprig of boxwood. I wear my unit pin and my jump wings on the patch.

I like it.

[Longshaor]

I'm planning on doing something similar, I was just currious as to how it was 'really' done. I was actually thinking of using some of the material from what's left of a Pattern 37 ammunition pouch that desperately needs to be put out of its misery. I'm thinking it might be a bit thick, but it will certainly be stiff!

[DWFII]

This is how mine looks with my Black MacSuibhne flash.

[Longshaor]

That's the look I'm gunning for! You say you used a zig-zag stitch to prevent fraying? My thanks for so much useful information!

[DWFII]

Yes, It doesn't have to be too wide and it was set fairly short as zig zags go. Then too because the tartan is predominantly black and grey, I used black thread. You almost have to know it is there to see it.

But the edges of the flash are left raw so that it looks as if it has a short "fringe" all the way around.

[Fit2BKilted]

Blame the Kennedy's!

Hat wearing fell off sharply after President Kennedy took office---world-wide.

Just because it's not so much in fashion anymore is no reason to proscribe hat wearing... Hats developed for a reason: to protect your head from excessive heating and cooling. Logically, it would behoove those of us who have a dearth of hair left on our heads to don bonnets (of whatever sort available) more often. Let the shaggy folk indulge in their prerogative to go bare-headed, and leave it at that. Besides, how might hats get back in fashion again if nobody's allowed to wear them... I like my hats, and they serve me well. I think it would be more appropriate to argue over when one should doff one's hat, in respect, than to consign those who would pragmatically wear them to injury or illness.