tartan flat cap help

[Jock Scot]

Well alright, take a deep breath everyone (are you ready Jeff?)! This thread could cause Internet melt down, so before I go any further let me say quite clearly that if you want to wear flat caps with the kilt then, well, go ahead. But before you all go to a lot of trouble, consider this.

Just for your information, flat caps are not usually worn with the traditional kilt these days in Scotland and elsewhere. People do that is for sure, but it is generally not done. Historically, there are plenty of pictures to make the point, that flat caps were indeed worn with the kilt, but somehow they dropped out of use with the kilt around WW1. Why? I have no idea. Just being mischievous here, perhaps they decided that the mixture did not look right?

So moving swiftly on! In to more modern times the flat cap and kilt do not seem to march together often apart from, it seems, outwith Scotland. Now is this a misguided assumption that flat caps are "normal" kilt attire by those who are new(ish) to kilt wearing? I don't know, but it does seem that way.

So far I have kept this thread away from a personal point of view and backed up with information gathered from a specific question on head-wear from my F4T2(question 24) thread and long time observations, the flat cap when worn with the kilt looks awful and there are far better head-wear options available to be worn with the kilt. I also happen to think that a tartan cap when worn with the kilt looks even worse! Aesthetically in my and it seems many(not all) Scots opinion the flat cap and the kilt do not work.

Feel free to think otherwise as many do and just regard the above as more food for thought. Perhaps?