Saltire Skull Cap?

[Barclay]

Those are bandannas or kerchiefs and hardly caps. Be them the garb of American slaves, pirates or the trouping colours of self-styled inner-city ganstas they are, I think, by no measures "skull caps" (the style of badhnāti excludes them also of being ħijābim or turbans).

There are, of course, many kinds of brimless headcovers among them an assortment of regional and tribal "kufi"...and tarbooshim. Among the national Muslim and Arab costumes under the Colonial and Ottoman rule there were a wide assortment of felt caps beyond the red
tasseled Fez worn by Peter Lorre in Casablanca or Sydney Greenstreet in Maltese Falcon . The caps were quite layered as under them was a libbadeh or kubbah (turban) and a kind of absorbent Kipa-like thing (araqiyeh). Of these only the araqiyeh is a "skull cap".

Thanks, Cliff. Can you make sure Coach gets Norm another beer?



I'm digging the Saltire skull cap. Nice find, Nervous Jock!

Oh! I so love that apron!