Klted Faux Pas at the parade

[macwilkin]

And "...and these people don't know anything because there were so many tacky balmorals and they had DICING on them, dad....don't they now that they aren't supposed to have dicing if they aren't British subjects?"

So I had to mention that the Chicago Police uses a black and white checkerboard band on their hats so if they had that on their glengarries or their balmorals it was okay...but "...Nooooo! They had the RED dicing."

This seems to be a very persistent myth which has no documentation to it at all. Whilst some of the Scottish regiments do wear either glengarries or balmorals with dicing, others do not. Dicing is simply left-over from the ribbons on the bottom of the bonnet, and I have never seen anything that states that it is a sign of nationality.

Now cockade colours are a different story...

Cheers,

Todd