Hats and Kilts

[Randy]

What headwear do you like with your kilt?

I wear many types of hats depending on what I am doing. My wife requested my gray fedora (Dobbs Dayton) when going out. Recently she and the other women in my life voted on the glengarry as my everyday kilt hat.

[Retro Red]

My favorite hat to wear with a kilt is a Balmoral. (see photo below for example)

I have 3 Balmoral hats, 1 each in black, tan & dark green (to color coordinate with the kilt I'm wearing). I hate the little pom on top, though & always cut them off, then I spray the hat with a fine mist of water & shape it to my head. And of course, I proudly wear the Robertson clan crest on it.

Often times when going casual, wearing a UK & t-shirt, I'll wear a baseball cap.

[switchblade5984]

none for me!

[Panache]

There's a hat shop in Santa Cruz that stocks all wool berets for about $10. I think they look great and have a similar look to the balmoral but cost at least $25 less. For the difference in price I can have a bunch of them.

I also have two wool caps (one Galbraith ancient and one Galbraith Modern) from a friend's online scottish shop but can only wear them with my gray UK mocker or Black Stillwater (still waiting for my Galbraith tank).

[Southern Breeze]

I usually wear a Seattle sombrero at work. I've got berets and balmorals on my "to get ASAP" list.

[Hamish]

I cannot stand wearing hats, but have been photographed wearing a couple!! Don't know what it is, but I feel such a prune when wearing any form of headgear and I know that none of them suits me.

At school we had to wear uniform caps from the age of 7 to leaving at 18 (for the last two years of school life, our caps carried the additional decoration of 6" long gold silk tassels hanging from the centre at the top - just imagine the humiliation!!). Then, in the army for my two years' National Service, my uniform headwear was a navy blue beret .......... to this day, I just HATE berets!!

A little sunscreen, worn at the height of summer, is all I like to wear on my head nowadays - kilts or no kilts!

[Rex_Tremende]

A little sunscreen, worn at the height of summer, is all I like to wear on my head nowadays - kilts or no kilts!

Hamish, I thought that all you wore was kilts, so, that means... oh! Never mind.

[Kilted KT]

If I'm off hiking in the woods, I'll wear an aussie-style widebrim hat to keep the rain off. Otherwise I hate hates with a passion, so I don't wear them.

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

Retro Red, I like that pic. Great look, and the hat goes well. Where did you find the vest?

I am not a fan of hats either, but in blazing sun or extended periods outside, I favor a wide brimmed, light weight hat, similar to this:

[Panache]

Hamish wrote: ...I just HATE berets!!


OH NO! I"M IN DIRECT OPPOSITION TO HAMISH! Am I still allowed to be on X-Marks?