Prom picture, part 2

**cessna152towser** · 7th September 07, 12:54 PM

Super pic of a handsome guy and a bonnie lass.

**Jock Scot** · 7th September 07, 12:59 PM

I think that they are called baseball caps here too and they seem fairly universal these days.In the rural areas it is still common to see men of all ages wearing a tweed "deer stalker" or a tweed "fore and aft"(a bit like a deerstalker,but without the ear flaps).A Balmoral or a Glengarry is almost never seen without the Kilt being worn and almost rarely when the kilt is being worn,apart from members of a pipe band that is.My 3 sons,in their mid to late twenties would wear a tweed cap "on the the hill",but just around the place the baseball cap is getting popular.

**MacWage** · 7th September 07, 01:11 PM

Coemgen,
I REALLY understand (one reason I MAKE my own stuff).

Jock Scot,
Thanks for the info-> one wee thing I didn't know.

Everyone else,
Sorry for the excursion.

**Coemgen** · 7th September 07, 03:22 PM

I'd make my own stuff, but I have neither the ability nor the time.

I've actually contemplated the possibility of making a Kenmore doublet from Uniformalwearhouse's Mandarin collar Eton jacket. Or perhaps a Brian Boru jacket from one of their shawl lapel Etons.

With my ambition, though, they will remain contemplations. At least, until I have graduated from Poor, Starving Liberal Arts Student to Poor, Starving Seminary Student to Poor, Starving Priest (With Family). Wait…

I just realised that I will probably be a poor, starving person from now 'til I die. Oh well. At least I'll be comfortable.

**MacWage** · 7th September 07, 03:36 PM

Originally Posted by Coemgen

At least, until I have graduated from Poor, Starving Liberal Arts Student to Poor, Starving Seminary Student to Poor, Starving Priest (With Family). Wait…

I just realised that I will probably be a poor, starving person from now 'til I die. Oh well. At least I'll be comfortable.

My situation is the SAME, just 9 years latter. (Similar track, then a WIDE move to retail and now to research.)
Balmorals are actually PRETTY EASY to make.
Here are some of mine:

**Coemgen** · 7th September 07, 03:48 PM

You wouldn't happen to have a pattern scanned into your computer that you could e-mail me, would you?

**adam** · 7th September 07, 10:39 PM

Ditto. I wouldn't mind one either.

**Coemgen** · 7th September 07, 11:38 PM

Thanks for PMing me those links, and for the advice as well. I'm now contemplating making a caubeen and modifying one of those Etons into a Brian Boru for prom next year (my girlfriend is a senior at the high school - of course, she wants to go to Cambridge or Oxford for her undergraduate, and possibly graduate, studies, do I'm going to get in as much time as possible with her between now and then). Time shall tell!

**andyfg** · 8th September 07, 05:12 AM

Very nice pic!

**Jock Scot** · 8th September 07, 11:43 PM

Hi Archangel,yes I think my answer was pretty diplomatic too,even though I say it myself!Diplomacy has never been a strong suit of mine!

Generally speaking men's bonnets should never be worn inside,but bending the rules for a photograph is fine ,great for a leg pull though, and of course if he was piping that would be fine too.