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Another headwear option for kilt suits surely were Scotish styles like balmorals and glengarys. The styles would have been seen as particularly suitable for kilt suits as after all the kilt is a Scottish stled garment. And we do see some boys with these caps in the photograph record. They are not as common, however as we had anticipated. In fact we have foundrekatively few examples of these caps. We see more boys wearing other styles of caps as well as hats. We get the impressiin that most mothers chose popuar headwear styles rather than Scottish styles to go along with the Scottish unspred kilt suits. We are not sure yet about the relative popularity of the two styles. The Glengarry seems most common with Highland kilts. We are not sure that there were most common with kilt suits. We notice some differences in the styling. Red and white checks were used in many but not all of the caps. Some of the balmorals seem to have matched the suits rather than having destinctive Scottish styling. They were probably most common in fashionable big cities, but we are not positive about this. Tams were also worn which seem to have Scottish asociations as well. Here there is the complicatiin that balmorals are often difficult to detingush from balmorals in photographs.
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