Figure 1.--I was not sure about the Balmoral tam, but a reader report that his troop in the 1960s wore berets looking rather like balmorals. The photograph here was taken at camp in 1967. The berets worn by English Scouts did not have the poms that these Scottish Scouts were wearing.

I'm not sure about the official headwear. We note early Scottish Scouts wearing the same wide-brimmed hats s English Scouts. We also notice them wearing berets after World War II. I was not sure about the Balmoral tam, but a reader report that his troop in the 1960s wore berets looking rather like Balmorals. The photograph here was taken at camp in 1967 (figure 1). The berets worn by English Scouts did not have the poms that these Scottish Scouts were wearing. Scottish Scouts were apparently allowed to wear the Glengarry. Scottish Scouts also wore the same green beret worn by Eglish Scouts when the uniform was changed in 1968. Headwear regulations were changed in the 1990s.

Traditional Broad-Brimmed Scout Hat

Earlu photographs of Scottish Scouts show them wearing the same broa-brimmed Scout hats worn by English and most other Scouts. TheBritish regfered to it as the lemon-squeezer hat.

Balmoral Bonnets

I was not sure about the Balmoral tam, but a reader report that his troop in the 1960s wore berets looking rather like balmorals. We now notice Scottish Scouts wearing berets after World War II. They look rather like Balmoral bonets and the Scottish Scouts referred to them as bonets. I'm not sure when theywere first intoduced, but we notice them being worn with the khaki uniform duing the1960s (figure 1). They were phased out when a new uniform was intricuced in 1967. We notice some of these bonnets styled differently. Some had poms and looklike Balmorals. Other did not have poms and look more like standard berets. I'm not sure just how precise te officiasl rgilations were bout these bonets. One interesting aspect is llthe diffrnt ways the boys had ofwearing them. Again I do not know if there was an official regulation about this.

Glengarry Bonets

Scottish Scouts were apparently allowed to wear the Glengarry. This appears to be an optional manner, but we have noticed Scottish Scouts wearing the Glengary when wearing a kilt as pat of their uniform.

Beret

Thenew green shirt uniform adopted in 1967 was worn with a dark green beret, the same as in Englnd. Headwear regulations were changed in the 1990s. Headwear is no longerwrn by British Scouts.