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View Poll Results: Do you like to wear a traditional bonnet with your day wear?

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  • Aye! Bonnets are bonnie, balmoral or glen... Tis just as smart now as e'er it was then.

    35 38.46%
  • knit hat with a toorie won't suit me, I'm sorry, I'd rather just bare my head.

    7 7.69%
  • I wear other hats, be they cowboy or flats, baseball or tilley, no headdress is silly.

    12 13.19%
  • Depends on the day, I'm happy to say, I've worn all of them and shall do so again!

    34 37.36%
  • Other, see my post below!

    14 15.38%
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    I voted for the first option. Whilst in Highland day attire, I always wear a Robert Mackie Balmoral bonnet with either a diced or plain band. The only time I do not wear a Balmoral is when I am wearing a casual jumper and/or collared shirt without a tie with the kilt. I always have my proper clan badge, in silver, affixed to the cockade and sometimes will tuck a sprig of white heather or boxwood (plant badges of the Clan Macpherson) behind the badge.

    Cheers,

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    I am also follicly challenged and opt for the balmoral when the weather is cooler (it gets cold up there!) and a Tilley or panama in the warmer seasons.

    Holcombe

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    I've been searching for a bonnet without a toorie. I like the look of balmorals, and would like to wear one, but me and toories don't see eye to eye.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir Didymous View Post
    I've been searching for a bonnet without a toorie. I like the look of balmorals, and would like to wear one, but me and toories don't see eye to eye.
    A toorie is quite easily removed. One of our terriers can do it in just a few seconds. However, a Balmoral is something else without one, and a toorie which matches the bonnet is not at all obtrusive.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir Didymous View Post
    I've been searching for a bonnet without a toorie. I like the look of balmorals, and would like to wear one, but me and toories don't see eye to eye.

    You wear the kilt outside Scotland in a country of a multitude of cultures, few of which understand the kilt -------and you worry about a toorie?
    " Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the adherence of idle minds and minor tyrants". Field Marshal Lord Slim.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir Didymous View Post
    I've been searching for a bonnet without a toorie. I like the look of balmorals, and would like to wear one, but me and toories don't see eye to eye.
    Why not just buy a beret?
    Jim Killman
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    Dress for the weather I say.

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