Impromptu urban millinery from Glasgow |

If you have been following this blog you may have realised that millinery is one of my personal interests.

I do like vintage hats but my favourite hat remains a military beret from the Italian army that I stole my brother when he finished his military service.

I had it for over 15 years now and for over a decade it has wonderfully protected my head through many violent rainstorms, especially in Glasgow.

Throughout the years the beret attracted a lot of attention, in fact it also attracted the unwanted attention of a weird guy, an ex-British army soldier and ex-French Foreign Legion member who tried to guess at a bus stop in Glasgow where the hat came from (apparently he could guess where a beret came from its colour, shape and way it was worn…). I thought nobody else in Glasgow could compete with my beret, but I was obviously wrong.

These pics were taken around the Trongate area by cartoonist Frank Boyle (Edinburgh Evening News readers are obviously very familiar with his work and he also did a successful exhibition a while back at the Edinburgh City Arts Centre).

The images show a man wearing a rather interestingly sculpted hat.

Frank thought it was rather clever the way the man chose for his impromptu hat a material in the same colour, though in a slightly different shade, of his jacket, but I found rather amazing the way he seemed to have sculpted the hat in a rather architectural way (undoubtedly the shape helps the rain drops sliding down…).

He could have worn a plastic bag or a newspaper sheet on his head to protect himself from the rain, but he seems to have made an effort.

It looks like a wonderful example of impromptu urban millinery, don’t you think so?

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