Does It Matter Which Way You Wear Your Tam???
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- čas přidán 18. 11. 2020
- How do you wear a tam hat?
What is a Balmoral hat?
What is a Scottish hat called?
How to wear a Scottish Clan Badge.
Do you tie the ribbons on a Glengarry hat or Balmoral hat?
What is the Scottish hat myth?
What is a Scottish bonnet?
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For some reason people love secret symbolism in things. Especially on clothing and personal decoration. They feel they are one of the few on the inside if they know the message being conveyed.
Secret symbolism is cringe, represent something I say!!
Agree 100% with tilting your tam towards the sun. Or tilt it towards the wind on winter days to keep your ear and face warm and block the wind on the windward side. A hat, like most garments, should be functional.
The military Balmoral, when worn correctly is positioned with the headband parallel to the ground, the body of the hat shifted to the right touching the top or the right ear leaving the insignia on the left in plain view. This is because arms are sloped on the left shoulder; this is the protocol. By the way, "scotch" is something one drinks, one may not refer to a Scottish person, or their hat, as scotch.
It was pulled down either side to stop the wind and rain from blasting your ear and side of your head the weather is beyond fierce where it comes from.
The ribbons were left loose by highlanders. The ribbons were tied by lowlanders. It was a form of identification 🏴
I always pull my blue bonnet to the left (with the cockade and any sort of badge I might be wearing on the right) because I part my hair on the right ("short back & sides"), and if I tilt the bonnet to the right it messes up my hair. (AND ... I'm an Upper Canadian of Lowland Scottish ancestry.)
🎶🎵Blue bonnets OVER the BORDER🎶🎵
That is and means something entirely different…which I will presume you will know.
Your videos are so interesting
I recently found a cool but super small history channel called Clans&Dynasties. It covers a lot on ancient Ireland and Scotland
Kaden Elijah Philips medieval History is good aswell and they often do collabs.
Yup! Can (sorta) confirm that wearing a Tam is a lowland thing. Photos of my passed family members who fought in war always wore the Tam, and I wear one with our tartan out in public every chance I get to honour them. A large portion of my family were once lowlanders banished to England and Ireland but that doesn't halt my Scottish pride. My family were certainly getting about the highlands and fighting under other clans' banners but we *were* lowlanders *teeeechnically*. We seem to've moved around a lot.
Back then less a tartan and more just the colour blue, our tartan (to my knowledge) has been a very slow evolution over time. Proud to wear my colours!!
Oh, and sidenote, my family's Protestantism has continued even up to today, my Mum being pretty staunch in her beliefs, my Dad a bit less so. It's quite funny how family beliefs and traditions change very little over time. I've heard too that our lot were "Jacobite sympathizers", which does make sense because my Mum's always been pretty obsessed with the songs and history surrounding the man.
Just my two bob! Greetings and love from Australia! 🌷🐎
Genuine Scottish here. Mens Tams generally seem to be worn to the right over here. This seems to be due to military influence, but I've never found any specific *reason* for this, nor any rule or belief. As far as I'm concerned, the idea od tilting it into the wind is sound. It not only blocks the wind but stops it blowing off!
As a Scot, people wearing the Balmoral outside of either military uniform or part of a pipe band is kind of weird. It would be like an American walking around in civilain clothes randomly wearing a green beret. It would look kind of strange.
It’s how you can tell if someone is left or right handed on which hand they put it in with. Like the size of ones nostril. The side that bigger indicates which finger the pick with. Right finger or left finger.
Scotland/Ireland has bonnets too?!
I thought that was only out of Jamaican culture!
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These are mainly used for the wearing of ones dreadlocks (locs/dreads) and crocheted together usually 💚💛🖤.
YESSSS I've seen those!!!! Time for bonnet wearers to unite I say! 😆❤
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bonnet = n 1 any of various hats worn, esp. formerly, by women and girls, and tied with ribbons under the chin. 2 (in Scotland) Also: bunnet. 2a a soft cloth cap. 2b (formerly) a flat brimless cap worn by men. 3 the hinged metal part of a motor vehicle body that provides access to engine. US name: hood. 4 a cowl on a chimney. 5 Naut. a piece of sail laced to the foot of a foresail to give it greater area in light winds. 6 (in the US and Canada) a headdress of feathers worn by some tribes of American Indians. [C14: from OF bonet, from ?]
I went to a Catholic high school, a friend of mine I met in college went to a public high school. He asked me how to decode school girl kilt pins, because alegedly there was a meaning if the pin was worn vertically, horizontally or on a diagonal.
I never heard anything even remotely similar to that.
I like that you guys presented the answer as obvious, yet I was clickbated into watching, and appreciated the myth busting quality of the independently targeted research sources.
For military bonnets I think they tilt it to the right because of the tartan and the cap badge
Wonder if that’s where tying the knot came from?
Do you guys know about the story/significance of the toorie on the tam, I noticed the blue bonnet doesn’t really have one while the tam does
The TOS with a cap badge should slope down from left to right, with the exception of the RHF, (my regiment) that formed high left and right,(with white hackle over McKenzie tartan patch) forming a shovel like scoop in the middle. ('other ranks') Officers wore tailored TOS's in a lighter sandy colour that sloped left down to right. The Black Watch however wear the whole circumference high, like a pork pie (with red hackle)
Blue Bonnets over the Borders!
march,march, Ettrick and Telotsdale, why ye laddies dinnae march in order?
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I loyally wear my lovat Balmoral every time with highland wear to keep warm, to look good and complete the outfit. No exceptions, even in church, no one complains. If challenged, my answer is,
"Removing the hat sir, implies I had questioned my absolute faith in God when entering his house, which is unthinkable".
This usually throws them.
Regards the ribbons, they are there to tighten the Balmoral (or tam) closer to the head, so there for a reason and must be tied into a neat bow, not left hanging untidily loose. Same as a service beret, or naval ratings cap, an exception being the glengarry. If the ribbons are merely sown on as a decorative feature (as most are) get a tailor to connect them to the inside circumference of the headwear so it can be tightened nicely to fit snug. You don't want it blowing away now do you, especially in these chilly winter months!
Tilt to the right, because the mens ornamental side is the left and womens is the right. So, a badge, hackle or other decoration must go on the left. Look at how your shirt is buttoned. Same rule. I'm quite surprised that you guyz didn't connect this.
Because this is in fact not remotely universal. Buy a womens coat in the UK, where these traditions are ostensibly from; You'll find it buttoned like a US men's jacket.
He said "Google John Knox" ... no, not Don Knotts.
why are people butthurt over the word tam, like what
Yeah. Please,stop calling it a Tam. It's a Tam o Shanter and every one that I have ever seen. Including Balmorals are pulled down to the right. The clan badge or regimental badge or hackle or feather is always worn on the left allowing the wearer to salute or doff with the common hand. The right
...Tam is easier to fit into a rhyme than Tam O' Shanter (sometimes) :(
No Scot calls it a tam. It’s a Tam o Shanter or Tammy. Nothing else. Please at least get the name correct
WHAT BRO LISTEN TO THE CORRIES
and goodness, why gatekeep over a SLANG WORD 😫
that said I always say "Tammy" personally but STILL----