Headwear for a cold evening formal event

[Canadian Vet]

Surely you don't wear a hat indoors?-------------------

---------Jock now dives for cover!

He owes us all a round if he does that in a Mess.

[MacKenzie]

Bear Hollow Clothiers https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61565332378404

They're not Balmorals in the traditional sense, but Tam O Shanters, constructed from flat woven fabric with a visible seam around the circumference like the military TOS.

While a lot are Tams for sure, some of them look more Balmoralish (Balmorally?)

[OC Richard]

While a lot are Tams for sure, some of them look more Balmoralish (Balmorally?)

For sure a TOS can be made to resemble a traditional bonnet, and Bear Hollow is doing a good job of it.

Still, they're not made like Berets, Balmorals, and Glengarries which are shaped from a single piece.

The military cooked up the TOS early in World War One as a quick way to mass produce bonnets using the same woven yardage, sewing machines, and method used to make uniform tunics and trousers: cut cloth to a pattern and sew it together with stitched seams.

I guess it wouldn't be overstating it to call the TOS ersatz bonnets.

[jsrnephdoc]

The military cooked up the TOS early in World War One as a quick way to mass produce bonnets using the same woven yardage, sewing machines, and method used to make uniform tunics and trousers: cut cloth to a pattern and sew it together with stitched seams.

This post led me to a Wikipedia article about Robert Burns's poem, which I'll confess I'd never read before, and THAT led me to some fascinating discussion of the origins of some "highfallutin" names, especially "Cutty Sark," which I'd always associated with a fancy schooner or an expensive whisky, but for which the origins actually seem to refer to Burns's own evening fondness for the ladies…

Maybe everyone here already knew that, but it amused me!

[Canadian Vet]

While a lot are Tams for sure, some of them look more Balmoralish (Balmorally?)

I do like that one.