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The Balmoral bonnet (also known as a Balmoral cap or Kilmarnock bonnet) is a traditional Scottish hat that can be worn as part of formal or informal Highland dress. Developed from the earlier blue bonnet , dating to at least the 16th century, it takes the form of a knitted , soft wool cap with a flat crown.
In 1829, these regimental forage caps were regulated by order to impose uniformity and then in 1834 replaced by a plain cap of knitted felt wool, known as a Kilmarnock Bonnet (from the place of manufacture in southwest Scotland). The Kilmarnock forage cap was superseded in kilted Highland regiments by the Glengarry bonnet in 1851. The rest of ...
This came to be known as the "bonnet, tam o' shanter", later abbreviated among military personnel to "ToS". It replaced the Glengarry – which was the regulation bonnet worn by Scottish troops with khaki field dress at the start of the war. Originally knitted, the military tam o' shanter subsequently came to be constructed from separate pieces ...
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Blue bonnet, a distinctive woollen cap worn by men in Scotland from the 15th to 18th centuries, and its derivations: Feather bonnet, worn by Scottish regiments; Glengarry, type of Scottish cap also called a Glengarry bonnet; Tam o' Shanter (cap) its military variant the Balmoral bonnet; See also: Bluebonnet (disambiguation) Bonnet may also refer to
The Craigy Bield, by David Allan.Two Lowland shepherds of the 18th century, wearing variations on the blue bonnet. The blue bonnet was a type of soft woollen hat that for several hundred years was the customary working wear of Scottish labourers and farmers.
Simple American bonnet or mobcap, in a portrait by Benjamin Greenleaf, 1805. A mobcap (or mob cap or mob-cap) is a round, gathered or pleated cloth (usually linen) bonnet consisting of a caul to cover the hair, a frilled or ruffled brim, and (often) a ribbon band, worn by married women in the 18th and early 19th centuries, when it was called a "bonnet".