Why do Scotland fans wear British Army berets

That red and white check , just wondering

 

dunno

 

just always have done did it since I was going in the 70,s

 

Isn't it to do with ye blue bonnets?

 

Maybe started from some scots soldiers going to games with the glengarry on....not sure.

 

Its a Boaby Burns thing is it no?

 

It's just the hat you wear with a kilt.

The royals starting wearing it in their trips to Balmoral and I guess it has become fashion for military regiments etc etcc

 

Think it used to be called the Balmoral then a similar beret, the Glengarry was introduced.....worn by Scottish soldiers since the days of Culloden.......think they were more Tam O' Shanter back then though.

 

The hats are Tam o Shanters and are much older than the use of them in the Scottish regiments. The highland clans were allowed to keep various bits or approximations of their traditional dress.

WIKI sAYS

The Tam O'Shanter is the bonnet that was first worn throughout northwestern Europe during the 15th century. It is made of wool and has a toorie (pom-pom) in the centre. It also has as a main hallmark the clan tartan woven right into its woollen threads. This distinguishes it from other bonnets such as the beret. Although brimless, the Tam o'Shanter, like all Scots bonnets, has an external hatband.
Before the introduction of cheap chemical dyes in the mid-19th century, the Scottish bonnet was made only in black, brown or blue cloth, the blue kind dyed with woad or indigo ("blue bonnets").[1] Now it is available in a wide variety of colors, as well as tartan. Women have also adopted a form of this hat known as a “Tammy” or “Tam.” The original form of the Balmoral bonnet and the Glengarry in Highland dress, the Tam O' Shanter is now best known as the headgear of a number of Scottish infantry regiments and those with Scottish affiliations.
Military use[edit]
A khaki Balmoral bonnet was introduced in 1915 for wear in the trenches by Scottish infantry serving on the Western Front. This came to be known as the bonnet, or Tam o' Shanter later abbreviated among military personnel to ToS.

 

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Great tune and possibly a tuneful explaination.

 

Corries

 

The Duke could always be counted on for some oul propaganda *.

 

Huns

 

Just to make themselves even more daft looking.

 

The question is the wrong way round. Why did British army copy hats that Scots had used long before the army did

 

* off. Treating anything Scottish as hunnish is racist

 

Which is why I've always viewed Clint Eastwood as the far superior western icon. Actually served, but was never a mouth piece

 

..because they are *.

 

On the contrary John Wayne wanted to serve but the film producers wouldn't let him out of his contract he had at the time.