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

[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!

[Marshal Moroni]

Hats and caps for every occasion. It has been many a decade since I left the house without a headcover of some kind.

When kilted I tend to wear whatever fits the occasion and weather; Summers are hot in CA, so brimmed straws, wet weather, felt Aussie styles mostly, flat caps and jacobites (see Arlen's Diane's patterns my Mom knitted me a pair), and other bonnets.

All work for me. Hats are as much fun as kilts!

Or at least they are for me,

Marshal Moroni

[Mr. Kilt]

I like flat caps, and I wear one with my various kilts. Mind you, I also like flat 7-Up and Dr. Pepper.

[Southern Breeze]

Lets see, flat caps, Hawaiian shirts and tartan....

[Derek Conley]

12 pages! Wow...

My .02: I like flat caps. I own about... 5 of them now. Some tartan (IOS, Dress Gordon), others not. I've yet to wear them with my kilt, and I wouldn't wear a tartan flatcap with a kilt, but would have no problems wearing the solids (or tweed, if I owned one) with the kilt.

Then again, I'm a heathen and wear baseball caps (always Marine Corps) with my kilt too.

[Geoff Withnell]

12 pages! Wow...

My .02: I like flat caps. I own about... 5 of them now. Some tartan (IOS, Dress Gordon), others not. I've yet to wear them with my kilt, and I wouldn't wear a tartan flatcap with a kilt, but would have no problems wearing the solids (or tweed, if I owned one) with the kilt.

Then again, I'm a heathen and wear baseball caps (always Marine Corps) with my kilt too.

Semper Fi!

I wonder if I'm the only person on the board who wears yarmulkes with their kilts? At least when I'm in synagague

Geoff Withnell

[Good Egg]

12 pages! Wow...

My .02: I like flat caps. I own about... 5 of them now. Some tartan (IOS, Dress Gordon), others not. I've yet to wear them with my kilt, and I wouldn't wear a tartan flatcap with a kilt, but would have no problems wearing the solids (or tweed, if I owned one) with the kilt.

Then again, I'm a heathen and wear baseball caps (always Marine Corps) with my kilt too.

I know that they're going to 'hate' me for this but actually it looks fine - probably because it looks as if its the look you intended to achieve. Unfortunately the flat cap wearers look as if they are going for traditional/conventional and have missed the mark.

I'm also afraid that those gentlemen who mentioned that they have worn their flat caps tweed or tartan with kilts in Scotland and received compliments from the natives probably failed to understand the native humour which leans heavily toward irony/sarcasm.

[Derek Conley]

I know that they're going to 'hate' me for this but actually it looks fine - probably because it looks as if its the look you intended to achieve. Unfortunately the flat cap wearers look as if they are going for traditional/conventional and have missed the mark.

Thank you! That day was sort of a "dedication" ensemble, if you will. USMC cap and shirt, Law Enforcement tartan, and my actual work boots I wear on patrol every night. The whole thing was really quite comfortable.

I'm also afraid that those gentlemen who mentioned that they have worn their flat caps tweed or tartan with kilts in Scotland and received compliments from the natives probably failed to understand the native humour which leans heavily toward irony/sarcasm.

I've been recognizing this sarcasm first-hand with my piping instructor. Luckily for me my humour runs in the same direction so I can appreciate it, and really... once recognized... is quite refreshing, I find.

[Larry124]

My own preference is (traditional style) flat cap yes, ball cap never.