Flatcaps and kilts....

**Whidbey78** · 15th February 11, 07:33 AM

Originally Posted by JSFMACLJR

Why wear a hat that isn't really "traditional" when one can wear a Balmoral bonnet?

It's just personal style. I don't personally like Balmorals, Glengarries, Tams, etc. on MY head, but I won't badger someone who is wearing one. It's just the individual's taste.

Beside that, I'm half Welsh, so I don't know any better.

**beloitpiper** · 15th February 11, 07:35 AM

Originally Posted by SlackerDrummer

Prince Henry of Battenburg (1858-1896), who married Princess Beatrice, Queen Victoria's daughter in 1885.

So now we're taking Highland cues from Italian-born German nobles?

Originally Posted by JSFMACLJR

Why wear a hat that isn't really "traditional" when one can wear a Balmoral bonnet?

Yes! I swear, when the weather is right, I think one of my sharpest outfits is my dark blue overcoat, tartan trousers, and Balmoral pulled tight to keep off the rain.

**auld argonian** · 15th February 11, 07:53 AM

Originally Posted by beloitpiper

So now we're taking Highland cues from Italian-born German nobles?

Hell, no...I'm taking MY Highland cues from Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Silvester Severino Maria Stuart...aka Bonny Prince Charlie...the Italian born half-Polish claimant to the thrones of Scotland, England AND Ireland (thank you very much!) who smuggled himself out of the country dressed as a lady's maid!

I should be easy to spot at the next Highland Games!

Best

AA

**beloitpiper** · 15th February 11, 08:00 AM

Originally Posted by auld argonian

Hell, no...I'm taking MY Highland cues from Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Silvester Severino Maria Stuart...aka Bonny Prince Charlie...the Italian born half-Polish claimant to the thrones of Scotland, England AND Ireland (thank you very much!) who smuggled himself out of the country dressed as a lady's maid!

I should be easy to spot at the next Highland Games!

Best

AA

Wait, are you telling me that a Chicago born half-Polish guy is taking cues from that pretender!?!

Be sure to have a Hebredean lass smuggle you into Games.

**KD Burke** · 15th February 11, 08:59 AM

I'm on no particular side of this issue. I did find a photo on Wikipedia of a gentleman who certainly appears to be a bastion of the traditional while sporting a flat cap.

**Whidbey78** · 15th February 11, 09:05 AM

Originally Posted by auld argonian

Hell, no...I'm taking MY Highland cues from Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Silvester Severino Maria Stuart...aka Bonny Prince Charlie...the Italian born half-Polish claimant to the thrones of Scotland, England AND Ireland (thank you very much!) who smuggled himself out of the country dressed as a lady's maid!

I should be easy to spot at the next Highland Games!

Best

AA

Nice one.

**Cowher** · 15th February 11, 09:18 AM

I'm a Boston boy so flat caps are normal here. We have a really large Irish population and with that comes a love for Celtic culture. Then we have Dropkick Murphys. Scuffy Wallace always in a kilt and a flat cap. So I'm my neck of the world flat caps are awesome when worn with a kilt.

**llyd** · 15th February 11, 09:24 AM

Just for the record...wearing the same flat cap amd my solid navy kilt that I finished last night..
I am such a rebel...

**SlackerDrummer** · 15th February 11, 10:01 AM

Originally Posted by beloitpiper

So now we're taking Highland cues from Italian-born German nobles?

And who do you think pulled that Italian-born German noble aside and said to him, "now see here, old boy,...the hat...it just isn't done"? That's right. No one.

That's my only point. If this chap can wear it in the presence of Scottish royalty, I don't see any reason why anyone else can't wear it in the presence of any of us rabble.