1 Kilt 10 Looks : A Visual Guide to Formality in Highland Attire

[macwilkin]

I take it the missing letter was a "w"? I raised this once before as I understood that any headwear with such a diced band denoted allegiance to the Crown, hence its wearing by forces personnel.

I have been searching for a source for this long-standing myth regarding dicing for quite sometime now; ironically, historian Stuart Reid mentions that Stewart of Garth described the dicing on bonnets as symbolic of the "fesse-chequey" of Stewart Arms, so if this indeed the case, dicing originally was a Jacobite, and not a government symbol.

Reid does discount this theory and states his belief that dicing was really just a decoration that could have been tied into diced hose.

And finally, while some regiments did wear diced glengarries (the Royal Scots, KOSB, HLI/RSF, etc.), others did not. Like many other pieces of military custom and tradition, the origin of this chestnut may be lost to the mists of antiquity.

Regards,

Todd