Tan Diced Balmoral/Bonnet, non MOD?

**Luke MacGillie** · 19th April 17, 03:03 PM

My google fu is weak! There used to be someone making a tan/buckskin coloured bonnet, with tan/white dicing, was popular with, well buckskinners and other black powder rendezvous types, despite any evidence of that color's existence in the pre 1840 world, but I digress, Where can you find one today? I think it would compliment a new jacket that I just purchased.

I do not want a MOD surplus bonnet, or one that remotely looks MOD, Just a nice light tan (Bison even), diced or even no dice bonnet

Any hints?

TIA

Luke

**Bruce Scott** · 19th April 17, 03:34 PM

Sir Robert's Highland House (USA) has both brown and fawn, white diced balmorals:

Headwear: http://www.scotsware.com/headwear.htm

Home Page: http://www.scotsware.com/

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There is also this "Desert Tan" job from Pakistan:

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http://makeakilt.com/balmoral-hats/8...moral-hat.html

**IsaacW** · 19th April 17, 04:59 PM

Google "Robert Mackie bonnet"

**Luke MacGillie** · 20th April 17, 05:54 AM

Originally Posted by IsaacW

Google "Robert Mackie bonnet"

I did, and Im not sure how I feel. If they are too busy to put their colours on the website, then me contacting them to ask what colours they offer would be taking away from their already busy day :-)

**IsaacW** · 20th April 17, 05:57 AM

Are a few American sellers of Mackie bonnets including J Higgins. https://www.jhiggins.net/balmorals/

**Tobus** · 20th April 17, 06:47 AM

I do not want a MOD surplus bonnet, or one that remotely looks MOD

If you don't want the MOD look, why do you want dicing?

The "desert tan" Balmoral from Glengarryhats.com is the one I usually wear (see below). It's not as high-quality, of course, as a Mackie bonnet. But it's still pretty good quality, especially for the price. They also have a WWI khaki colour that's a tad darker. As far as I know, they don't have a diced version in tan colours.

**Luke MacGillie** · 20th April 17, 08:58 AM

Originally Posted by Tobus

If you don't want the MOD look, why do you want dicing?

At its most basic level, dicing is a civilian decorative element. Granted, it was adopted by the military and today is associated almost exclusively with the military, but its roots are truly in civilian dress.

**Tobus** · 20th April 17, 09:53 AM

Originally Posted by Luke MacGillie

At its most basic level, dicing is a civilian decorative element. Granted, it was adopted by the military and today is associated almost exclusively with the military, but its roots are truly in civilian dress.

I seem to recall a discussion about civilian use of dicing on bonnets a long time ago, but I guess I've forgotten the details. What are the earliest examples of civilian diced bonnets that pre-date the military ones?

**Bruce Scott** · 20th April 17, 02:37 PM

Originally Posted by Luke MacGillie

I did, and Im not sure how I feel. If they are too busy to put their colours on the website, then me contacting them to ask what colours they offer would be taking away from their already busy day :-)

US Based J Higgins carries Mackie balmorals and their site shows them in both white diced brown and a lovat green diced fawn. They also offer an "option to create your unique look with hat color, pom color and dicing color"

Balmoral Range: https://www.jhiggins.net/balmorals/

Mix & Match: https://www.jhiggins.net/balmoral-pl...-match-colors/

**KMCMICHAEL** · 20th April 17, 04:06 PM

Originally Posted by Tobus

If you don't want the MOD look, why do you want dicing?

The "desert tan" Balmoral from Glengarryhats.com is the one I usually wear (see below). It's not as high-quality, of course, as a Mackie bonnet. But it's still pretty good quality, especially for the price. They also have a WWI khaki colour that's a tad darker. As far as I know, they don't have a diced version in tan colours.

I do not mean to derail but my wool bonnet is extremely warm and impossible to wear this time of year in Texas. How is that one?