Hats and Kilts

[Pour1Malt]

It is a Robertson Hunting tartan, but you can't see the detail of the tartan well in the shade. If only I had a fine photographer like you, P1M...


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the photo looks fine... but mon! that kilt looks dark.... certainly looks darker than my Robertson Hunting....

[Paul Henry]

and much darker than mine as well

[JackK]

The only hat I wear with kilts is a baseball cap. This is only to shade my eyes when playing photographer, and after a long mountain bike ride to cover helmet hair. I do wear a fedora (Akubra) in the winter, but only (forgive me) when wearing pants in the cold.

Jack

[davedove]

Since I grew above the hair line, a hat is a necessity for me. For day to day wear, it's usually a flat cap (or driving cap, or whatever you want to call it). They are great in that I can fold them over and put them in a jacket pocket when I go inside. Plus, they seem to look good with a kilt.

Sometimes I wear a ball cap, especially for the really casual events.

I really like cowboy hats and other wide brimmed hats and think I look good in them, but I have a hard time dealing with them. What do you do with them when you're not wearing them? I was taught not to wear a hat indoors and especially not when eating. During those times, if there is not a hook or rack somewhere nearby to hang the hat, I can never figure out what to do with it.

[andyfg]

Just realized my avatar has me wearing my favorite sun-repellant headwear, my Tilly Endurables T3, from http://www.tilley.com/.

Best rain, sun, hiking, kayaking, beach walking hat ever.

Mine is a Tilley Hemp TH4 in summer, and the equivalent wool hat in winter (great for an NY winter, ear flaps and all). Superb hats! I think they look good with kilts.

[Paco500]

Since I grew above the hair line, a hat is a necessity for me. For day to day wear, it's usually a flat cap (or driving cap, or whatever you want to call it). They are great in that I can fold them over and put them in a jacket pocket when I go inside. Plus, they seem to look good with a kilt.

Sometimes I wear a ball cap, especially for the really casual events.

I really like cowboy hats and other wide brimmed hats and think I look good in them, but I have a hard time dealing with them. What do you do with them when you're not wearing them? I was taught not to wear a hat indoors and especially not when eating. During those times, if there is not a hook or rack somewhere nearby to hang the hat, I can never figure out what to do with it.

I guess as I consider the hat a necessity, I find a way to deal with it. Hang it on a chair back, put it in my lap or carry it in my hand.

I'm perhaps less formal in that I will not always take my hat off when stepping inside, but it always comes off at the table and generally when interacting with people.

[arrogcow]

On the subject of hats,maybe I can get a little help. When I was a kid, my mother and I bought my dad a cap in an Irish shop in Louisville, KY (gone now), that was called an Irish fisherman's hat. Dad wore it for years till it fell apart. I have have tried to find another (one for him, one for me) with no success. The cap was corduroy and had a higher crown than the flat Irish tweed caps you usually see. In fact it looks more like a Greek fisherman's cap that I have found on the web, though the design is slightly different. I have searched Celtic stores and the web, and no one seems to know what I'm talking about (what is it about me and impossible to find hats).

Any help would be appreciated.

Adam

[MacSimoin]

Adam,

Maybe this Skipper Cap from Hanna Hats is what you're looking for? Or, maybe this Irish Fishermans Cap from American Bay Outfitters?

[Aggie]

I wear a baseball cap when casual, a balmoral for outside formal occasions, and a straw cowboy hat. I agree with Paco about fashion taking a back seat to having a doctor peeling parts of your face and head. As to what you do with a cowboy hat, CanadianCowboy.com has a few etiquette rules:

*Any time you enter a building, the hat should come off.

*If it is an informal occasion you may put it back on but for a formal occasion it should stay off.

*When sitting down at a table for a meal, the hat should come off unless there is nowhere to safely lay the hat.

*When sitting down at a counter for a meal, the hat can stay on.

Linda Mussehl who writes for the Livestock Weekly says, "The hat comes off immediately, however, in a restaurant with a carpeted floor and linen tableclothes. He puts it under his chair or on an extra chair. If the carpet is dirty or there's no chair to park his hat on, he hands it to his wife to hold for him."

[davedove]

As to what you do with a cowboy hat, CanadianCowboy.com has a few etiquette rules:

*Any time you enter a building, the hat should come off.

*If it is an informal occasion you may put it back on but for a formal occasion it should stay off.

*When sitting down at a table for a meal, the hat should come off unless there is nowhere to safely lay the hat.

*When sitting down at a counter for a meal, the hat can stay on.

That's basically the rules I follow, except I feel REALLY strange wearing a hat when I eat.

Linda Mussehl who writes for the Livestock Weekly says, "The hat comes off immediately, however, in a restaurant with a carpeted floor and linen tableclothes. He puts it under his chair or on an extra chair. If the carpet is dirty or there's no chair to park his hat on, he hands it to his wife to hold for him."

I love that!