Saltire Skull Cap?

[Nanook]

Does anyone know if anyone makes a Saltire skull cap?

What is a "skull cap"? Yarmulke (Kipa)? (If so ill conceived due to the observation that the Saltire is a cross)

[Fearnest]

What is a "skull cap"? Yarmulke (Kipa)? (If so ill conceived due to the observation that the Saltire is a cross)

Pretty much the same design, but not the same origin. In "common" use, it's even beginning to be interchangeable with "do-rag" or "head wrap," to the point where it includes versions that are not symmetrical and have a tail (see below and note the URL).


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[Nanook]

Pretty much the same design, but not the same origin. In "common" use, it's even beginning to be interchangeable with "do-rag" or "head wrap," to the point where it includes versions that are not symmetrical and have a tail (see below and note the URL).

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).

[Fearnest]

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).

Yep, I agree. But I was just showing what "passes" for a skull cap for many people these days.

We're ceasing to be a people who use precise words precisely.

[Monkey@Arms]

I was trying to think of the name of some other brimless men's caps other than the beanie, watch cap, and the fez.

Suggestions? (Pics would be nice too.)

Best regards,

Jake

[Nanook]

I was trying to think of the name of some other brimless men's caps other than the beanie, watch cap, and the fez.

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".

[McMurdo]

the red tasseled Fez worn by Peter Lorre in Casablanca or Sydney Greenstreet in Maltese Falcon .

The Fez was worn in Casablanca by Sydney Greenstreet as Signor Ferrari, Peter Lorre played Ugarte who if you recall was the one who killed the German couriers for the letters of transit.

[Avonlea22]

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).

Ok then.

I'm just going by what they are commonly called. I didn't name them. Call it a do-rag if you don't like the term skull cap. Either way, I've had no luck finding one, but thanks everyone for their input.

[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!

[ccga3359]

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

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