Scottish Heritage & Highland Games Hats

The United States holds more than 200 Highland games and Scottish festivals every year, more than any other country in the world, Scotland included, and the biggest draw 30,000 to 50,000 people over a weekend. At a games the athletes toss a caber, a tapered larch pole, end over end, toss a 20-pound bundle of straw over a bar with a pitchfork, and throw a 16 or 22-pound hammer. Clan tents list surnames by sept and let visitors register as members. The 2020 census counted 8,422,613 Americans, 3.6 percent, claiming Scottish ancestry alone or in combination. These hats are for that crowd. The badges are plain: SCOTTISH and HIGHLAND GAMES, with SCOTTISH ROOTS beside them, a phrase already sold on hats elsewhere. DINNA FASH and OCH AYE bring the dialect, and DINNA FASH is spelled the way listings actually spell it. The longer lines are the in-jokes: IT'S WHISKY NO E for the spelling pedants, MY CLAN HAD A CASTLE I HAVE A CONDO for heritage with a mortgage, and I'VE ALREADY BOOKED THE BAGPIPER FOR MY FUNERAL for the planner. MY FAVORITE SPORT IS MEN IN KILTS THROWING TREES says what one spectator described as men chucking a telephone pole end over end, and I LOVE A MAN IN A KILT (HE IS ME) is for the one wearing it. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. MY CLAN HAD A CASTLE I HAVE A CONDO and the bagpiper line each come in two colorways.