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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 The Kilmarnock forage cap was superseded in kilted Highland regiments by the Glengarry bonnet in 1851.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 ...
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For the Royal Scots this included a scarlet doublet, tartan trews and (from 1904) a dark blue Kilmarnock bonnet with diced band, scarlet toorie and black-cock feather. [105] This continued as the regimental full dress uniform until 1939, although worn only to a limited extent after 1914.
Other types of bonnet might otherwise be called "caps", for example the Scottish blue bonnet worn by working-class men and women, a kind of large floppy beret. Bonnet derives from the same word in French, where it originally indicated a type of material. From the 18th century bonnet forms of headgear, previously mostly worn by elite women in ...
By the middle of the century the characteristic broad, flat Lowlander's bonnet, usually worn with clothing of homespun hodden grey and perhaps a woollen, black and white checkered maud, was said to have disappeared or survived only in the "degenerate form of a small round Kilmarnock bonnet worn pretty generally by ploughmen, carters and boys of ...
In fact the military version of the folding bonnet, known as the glengarr was first adopted by the 79th Highlnders around 1841. It was then ordered for all Highland regiments (instead of the round 'Kilmarnock' bonnet- worn by all infantry) in 1852.
The monument, which stands 16 feet (4.9 m) tall, [2] consists of a bronze statue of Burns in a seated position, with a Kilmarnock Bonnet in his left hand and a book in his right hand, which is resting on his knee. [9] Both the pedestal and base are made of granite, [4] and the entire monument is surrounded by a circular path. [1]