79th Glengarries-Help from any reenactors

[NorCalPiper]

Hi All-
One thing that is blatantly missing from my store line up is head-gear. One thing that I will not do is sell Pakistani tat, which is where most the glens and balmorals come from. Robert Mackie was really the only choice, but Chris at Dunnad (As well as Labhran and some others) seems to be handling that nicely, so there wasn't a real need to saturate the market with another distributer for them.

So I decided that what would be really nice, unique, and sentimentally American would be to have manufactured a replica of the 79ths 2 banded R/W/B diced glengarry. Something truly unique (That fits my company's persona), and something that is something that is authentically American, but in relation to Highland wear.

i did contact Robert Mackie and had Linda explore this idea, but it has just come back that to arrange for that style of dicing would be too costly and hard (Their machines are designed for the traditional diced. So without a ridiculously expensive investment (And I mean ridiculous), its just not possible. Now, I've seen some pics of reenactors, and a pic of OCRichard wearing the authentic style replica. Can anyone chime in and let me know who is making them? I think this would be a great tribute, as well as being something uniquely American/Scots themed. Any help appreciated-Josh

[Kilted Rogue]

you can talk to 79thReproductions. She makes all the Glens for her 79th unit and others that are in need. She is a member here on Xmarks. If you search for anything 79th related you will find her , or she is on my list of friends

good luck

[NorCalPiper]

THATS right!! i totally forgot-Thanks, Josh

[Kilted Rogue]

dont mention it,
cant wait to see them

[OC Richard]

I should mention that my 79th Glengarry is a fairly crude DIY job.

I hand-embroidered a strip of dicing, then basted it onto an ordinary modern Glengarry.

The prewar 1858-1861 79th NY Glengarries not only had only two rows of dicing, they were also somewhat different in shape as compared to modern Glengarries.

Early Scottish Glengarries, from the 1840's, are somewhat taller and blocked a bit differently as compared to modern Glengarries.

By the 1850's and 1860's Scottish Glengarries had already evolved to the modern shape. Glengarries of the 1860's are pretty much identical to modern Glens, as can be seen in The Highlanders Of Scotland. (The same cannot be said of Balmorals.)

My feeling is that when the 79th NY adopted the tall Glengarry in 1858, they were adopting something already passe in Scotland itself.

The same disconnect with Scotland shows in the strange, unique 79th NY doublets, and the crude machine-stitched kilts.