Originally Posted by
Ted Crocker
You know BoldHighlander, I was thinking about how there seemed to be a third style of this kind of hat that is poofier or more clothey around the back. I think they are all in the same family of caps that fold down over the bill, including the Scottish version with the pompom thing in the middle. I seem to remember a military style hat that has a mor rigid and flat top that is wedge shaped...
Ok, I had to go look that up. I was talking about the Balmoral and the tam. They kind of have the same flavor having the flat top; guess they don't have a brim of any sort though... They kind of remind me of the look of the newsboy or the flat cap.
Ted, you just once again jarred my memory. As I have seen depicted in art (& by Scottish reenactors) the old flat bonnets (forerunners of the Balmoral) were usually worn pulled forward so that it more or less resembled a flat cap.
I wonder if this is where the idea of the billed flatcap (etc) came from?
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