Rooster Feathers

**Jako Dar** · 12th March 08, 02:07 AM

My pleasure, Ted!

**Bugbear** · 12th March 08, 10:46 AM

Ya, I'll try out one of thos avatars today, but I still am a mouse for now. Thinking back on that whole thing, it's kind of funny sending pictures half way across the country and back. It could have just as easily been half way around the world.

I guess we are all getting closer in a way.

**starbkjrus** · 12th March 08, 01:10 PM

Originally Posted by Ted Crocker

Thanks for looking those up, BoldHighlander. I'll probably copy those links over into the thread where I hord all my other links.

That last one sounds really good.

Oooo, Thanks for the hat links.

**Bugbear** · 12th March 08, 02:19 PM

Originally Posted by starbkjrus

Oooo, Thanks for the hat links.

We'll just keep those links here, so we can all find them.

I have a file of links to stuff from X Marks. You never know when someone might be looking around for something.

**Bugbear** · 14th March 08, 10:23 AM

That's cool, glad you posted those.

In my mind the 8-p caps would go very well with a waistcoat or vest. I guess the flat caps too.There's something about not having that rem around the back that looks good to me. The baseball caps are too beatle bug lookin for me, and I have a high forehead., so I don't need that going on.

I might get a 8-P cap now...

**BoldHighlander** · 14th March 08, 10:25 AM

Originally Posted by Ted Crocker

In my mind the 8-p caps would go very well with a waistcoat or vest. I guess the flat caps too.

...and kilts too

**Bugbear** · 14th March 08, 10:30 AM

Yep!

**Bugbear** · 15th March 08, 05:13 PM

You know BoldHighlander, I was thinking about how there seemed to be a third style of this kind of hat that is poofier or more clothey around the back. I think they are all in the same family of caps that fold down over the bill, including the Scottish version with the pompom thing in the middle. I seem to remember a military style hat that has a mor rigid and flat top that is wedge shaped...

Ok, I had to go look that up. I was talking about the Balmoral and the tam. They kind of have the same flavor having the flat top; guess they don't have a brim of any sort though... They kind of remind me of the look of the newsboy or the flat cap. I'm not sure what that military looking hat would be that I was talking about, but I seem to remember the front of it slanting down over the bill and perhaps not actually touching the bill; probably made of canvas.

I wouldn't mind wearing a glengarry from time to time, but not too often. Deerstalkers are kind of neat too. I used to have a brown one, but it wore out along with almost all of my other hats.

Here's an idea, a leather glengarry motorcycle hat.

Remember those leather helmets? You'll need some round goggles with the leather glengarry too.

**BoldHighlander** · 15th March 08, 10:05 PM

Originally Posted by Ted Crocker

You know BoldHighlander, I was thinking about how there seemed to be a third style of this kind of hat that is poofier or more clothey around the back. I think they are all in the same family of caps that fold down over the bill, including the Scottish version with the pompom thing in the middle. I seem to remember a military style hat that has a mor rigid and flat top that is wedge shaped...

Ok, I had to go look that up. I was talking about the Balmoral and the tam. They kind of have the same flavor having the flat top; guess they don't have a brim of any sort though... They kind of remind me of the look of the newsboy or the flat cap.

Ted, you just once again jarred my memory. As I have seen depicted in art (& by Scottish reenactors) the old flat bonnets (forerunners of the Balmoral) were usually worn pulled forward so that it more or less resembled a flat cap.
I wonder if this is where the idea of the billed flatcap (etc) came from?

**Bugbear** · 15th March 08, 10:14 PM

Originally Posted by BoldHighlander

Ted, you just once again jarred my memory. As I have seen depicted in art (& by Scottish reenactors) the old flat bonnets (forerunners of the Balmoral) were usually worn pulled forward so that it more or less resembled a flat cap.
I wonder if this is where the idea of the billed flatcap (etc) came from?

I'm not sure, but that depiction is the one stuck in my mind. If I had something like a Balmoral or a tam, I would probably try to wear it that way.

I just thought that was what everybody was talking about; pulled forward just like a flat cap except without a bill... The badge would be on the side right where the front begins to bend down.
Now that you cleared that up, I dont want to wear a Balmoral, I want a flat bonnet that I can wear that way we're talking about. Maybe even with the pompon thingy in the middle too...

* I went and read up on the Scottish bonnets and hats we're talking about. It turns out that the tam and Balmoral can be worn forward a little like the flat cap, instead of pulled to the right. I think I would wear it that way if I had a tam or Balmoral.

All of these kind of hats are in the same family to me, even the peaked cap. There are several others that I can think of, but I don't know the names. They all tend to have a bigger top than bottom...

Those glengaries kind of remind me of a rooster comb...