Quote Originally Posted by Lachlan09 View Post
. . . I feel things get too precious sometimes. I’ve never worn any sort of hat with my kilt, but that’s my choice. I’m from a generation which didn’t wear hats, mainly because it messed up my blow-dried hair !!. . . .
Me, too. I was just a young boy when John Kennedy walked down the avenue to his inauguration, and I suspect that his style was the end of hats for men in the US.

But as I grow older, I have returned to my early love of hats. I even wore a nice Dobbs snap brim straw with my grandfather as a boy. I now wear hats almost all the time, especially since my thinning hair no longer lends itself to blow drying lest I look like an old geezer trying to fool someone into thinking I still have a lot of hair.

Now that I have taken to cutting my once long, beautiful locks (which I once wore like Dirty Harry) to a very short length, hats don't leave me with hat head. So, I wear hats a lot. Fedoras (straws and felts), bonnets, and tams, and even berets.

I like my regimentals tams the best with jeans. But I also wear a green Royal Marines beret quite often as it is almost as small as a Foreign Legion beret.

Just thought I'd throw all this useless info out there. Here is a photo of me in a green beret at the St. Paddy's parade last year (2009).