Headwear

[fluter]

A cowboy hat with a kilt?

This hat style does not carry the baggage for me that it appears to do for some of you. I think Riverkilt looks perfectly in tune with his surroundings, and in my case: if the sun is out, I will be wearing a hat with a brim.


Earlier, I mentioned a Stetson which also includes my brown fedora. This isn't a good picture of the hat, but here's another.


I was going to say "Clan Hopalong" but the hat is just not tall enough! Clan Paladin, then. I'd be most likely to wear a black dress shirt with this combination, that was just what was handy on a given day.

I've also worn this black hat with a tartan kilt and charcoal gray jacket. IMHO looks much better than a brown or olive hat, and my good grey fedora is no more, alas!

[Chef]

I wear a tweed and tartan driving caps, berets, a balmoral, a glengarry, an austrailian slouch hat, and am considering a pith helmet for the very hot summer highland games.

I wear driving caps that are tweeds, solid colors, and I even have a quilted one. When I'm working out in the garden, some times I wear a straw hat or a large canvas hat, kind of like "cowboy" hats or something like that.

I also am a fan of driving caps, both tweed and plain. Not sure about the pith helmet though

I still occasionally wear a Balmoral or a Glengarry, but often find them a bit too Highland Gamesy for everyday. I did see a tweed Balmoral that I am thinking about though.

[Panache]

I also am a fan of driving caps, both tweed and plain. Not sure about the pith helmet though

Chef,

From discussions elsewhere I have determined that a pith helmet would work with a safari style khaki shirt and khaki hose at a Highland Game in the same way that wearing a Jacobite shirt works at one. The look is far too theatrical for regular daywear but at a festive (hot and sunny) celebration of things Scottish I think it would be fine. The reason I'm considering this is that I'm getting tired of getting sunburned, also one never knows when one might bump into Livingston at a Highland Games...

Cheers

Jamie

[Chef]

[QUOTE=Panache;464834The reason I'm considering this is that I'm getting tired of getting sunburned, also one never knows when one might bump into Livingston at a Highland Games... [/QUOTE]

Well, chance favours the prepared.

I agree it might be a bit much for daywear, but I am sure you will look quite dapper.

[Jock Scot]

By some of you describing a hat as a "tweed driving cap" is that what I would call a cloth cap or just a flat 'at?If so,I have not seen one worn with the kilt ever.I have seen them worn,with the kilt,in Victorian/Edwardian photographs though.

I often wear a Balmoral and sometimes a deer stalker or a fore and aft( a bit like a deer stalker without the flaps)with the kilt.We do not encounter high temperatures here but I have always thought that a Panama would do the trick nicely if ever I and the kilt travelled to warmer climes.

[Fedgunner]

I wear a balmoral at events (outdoors) or when I am under arms.
(At which most think I'm just an uncouth American wearing a hat indoors)

I'm thinking of picking up a "bonnie blue" and a tweed quarter cap.

[thescot]

I forgot to add: Nervouse Jock, you look fantistic in uniform. That takes the winner on this thread, IMHO.

[Riverkilt]

Is this what folks mean by a flathat? This is from Hannah Hats of Donegal. I thought a LOT of the rabble wore them and they were pretty much Jimmy Carbomb's trademark....



Ron

[Riverkilt]

I don't know that this is a western hat...its wool, made by the Golden Gate Hat Company in San Francisco, but it does have a bit of a western cut to it.



With a wool Filson cruiser jacket and my old Forest MARPAT Pittsburgh Kilt. At the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.

Worked for me on both a cold and sunny day. Important to protect from sun at 8,000 feet.

Ron

[high-gear]

*** on Hannah Hats!

I wear a flat cap with my kilt when casual, or no hat at all. I'm looking for a Balmoral in the future.