balmoral

[Peter C.]

I always wear the balmoral with the ribbons tied in a neat little bow at the back as they do in the regiments. In fact, a regimental tam comes with a pseudo bow sewn on to the back. On my glengarrys (glengarries?), I let 'em fly--again, like the regiments. I figure they've been wearing 'em a long time, and what we wear is mostly a copy of the military style anyway. And there's something kind of cool and devil-may-care about those flying ribbons on the back of a glengarry that just doesn't look the same on a bonnet.

But whatever you do doesn't really matter. At the worst someone may think you're "out of style," but, for man wearing a kilt, I always figure I'm setting my own style anyway.

And I should offer the caveat that I am somewhat conservative in most things, so I am more likely to go along with conservative ways of doing things than some would. I am old, and I do not like change! Ha!

You said everything I was thinking of saying, so I will just second your statements Jim. Or---Good old Jim---as they say.

Peter