Robert Mackie bonnets on Ebay

[jsrnephdoc]

First, I don't think "tassel" is what you mean, rather "tourie" (the little pom-pom).

Oops! Right you are. Apologies.

Second, I'm wondering if they're black, or blue. They're difficult to tell apart unless you have a blue one and a black one side-by-side outdoors in direct sunlight.

I just ask because I see dozens of blue ones for each black one, black didn't ever seem to be very popular.

The military ones are always blue, and civilian ones usually are too.

About dicing, to my eye the Mackie bonnets in Fawn, Lovat Blue or Lovat Green, etc look equally tasteful and civilian whether plain or diced, while the dark blue ones look tastefully civilian if plain, but look a bit over-the-top if diced, due to having red/white/black dicing.

This is because the dark blue bonnets with red/white/black dicing look like army hats.

(The black ones have two-colour black & white dicing and are worn by Police Pipe Bands.)

About Glengarries, they've not been popular with civilian Highland Dress in over a century.

Both my Balmoral and my Glengarry are black, even in the bright Montana sun. There's no label in the 3-color diced Balmoral; the red-white diced Glengarry is from Gaelic Themes "Piper Range."

Both get uniformly "thumbs up" reviews here in Bozeman. They're my favorite winter hats.