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!

[ccga3359]

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

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[gilmore]

I am with Nanook's nomenclature. This thread is the first time I have heard of these being called skull caps. In the convenient stores around here, even the packaging labels say they are do-rags.

[McMurdo]

In the motorcycle rider vernacular Skull Cap is correct, do rag is something I had not heard of until recently. Anyway the semantics are unimportant, the original question was does anyone know where one can be purchased. I have not seen one, I did see a solid blue one but not a Saltire.

[ccga3359]

In the motorcycle rider vernacular Skull Cap is correct, do rag is something I had not heard of until recently. Anyway the semantics are unimportant, the original question was does anyone know where one can be purchased. I have not seen one, I did see a solid blue one but not a Saltire.

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[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.

[Fearnest]

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.

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[auld argonian]

Just to get the nomenclature straight...a doo-rag was/is what an African American dude would wear to keep his hair in position after he's gotten a "process job"...I believe that the expression that I heard in my youth was something like "...lyed, fried and slicked to the side". Anyway, a lot of guys would cultivate a pompador and the doo-rag would hold it up in place during non-critical times (like when you were at work) and be removed when one wanted to look good (like when you went out on weekend evenings). The light weight bandana head covers worn nowadays are descendants of those original doo-rags. Think Little Richard back in the day...

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