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 Originally Posted by ThistleDown
Are you not well then, Jock? Was it the sun beating down on your bonnetless head? Perhaps we could just go out for a wee walk while you inhale large gulps of fresh Lochaber air. Would that help cure you of this (I just must say it) quite irrational thinking about the tractor cap? It wouldn't be a bother, you know.
Rex
I think it best if I refer you to post 34 on this thread Rex. 
I think I will take your advice and go for a stroll, before I shock any one else!
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I don't own a flat cap, but I do like the wider, eight-panel "newsboy" style of cap. And, I confess to wearing it often with a kilt! With the button on top, and the floppier look, they almost seem more "bonnet like"...
Brian
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." ~ Benjamin Franklin
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Here are two additional options, both available from the Scottish Tartans Museum. Both are "historical" bonnets, but do not partake of the same associatons/characteristics of "current" or "modern" balmoral, tam or glengarry. The first, made by our own Ryan Ross, is available without a toorie:
You can order it here if you wish:
http://giftshop.scottishtartans.org/knit_bonnets.htm
This is the Highland Bonnet, which has many of the style advantages of a flat cap without, it is hoped, invoking the Jock Scott negative response reflex:
You can order it here if you wish:
http://giftshop.scottishtartans.org/highland_bonnet.htm
Just my tuppence. In full disclosure, I have ordered two of the Ryan Ross bonnets, one in brown, the other in grey. Both with matching toories. As you can tell, I like that style bonnet very much.
That being said, Panache had it just right in his first post on this thread...as regards your choice in hats, FREEDOM! Cheers!
"Before two notes of the theme were played, Colin knew it was Patrick Mor MacCrimmon's 'Lament for the Children'...Sad seven times--ah, Patrick MacCrimmon of the seven dead sons....'It's a hard tune, that', said old Angus. Hard on the piper; hard on them all; hard on the world." Butcher's Broom, by Neil Gunn, 1994 Walker & Co, NY, p. 397-8.
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Last edited by BoldHighlander; 2nd July 10 at 02:36 PM.
Reason: Additional thought.
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