Pith helmet

[JS Sanders]

Hey JD -

It would be impolite of me to contradict your piping pards experience... no doubt he's found the helmet unpleasant.

I've had a white Kitchener-style helmet for years. Sweltering summer temperatures aren't foreign to us in this part of the South. I've found mine to be more comfortable than woolen head covers.

My helmet has a vent at the top and a suspension headband. I can actually feel air circulating inside at times. Perhaps the manufacturer has everything to do with how comfortable these lids can be.

I don't wear the helmet often - it really only matches a military-style tunic or possibly khaki shirt & associated kit. Here the demand for such a thing is limited. Almost always it's at funerals and the khaki would be too informal, so that leaves the ever so sauna-like tunic. Obtaining a cotton white tunic as retailed by www.glengarryhats.com seems to be a better alternative to my woolen model.

My only real complaint is keeping the bass drone from occasionally striking the helmet's brim and knocking the helmet askew.

Slainte yall,
steve

[Jack Daw]

Hey JD -

It would be impolite of me to contradict your piping pards experience... no doubt he's found the helmet unpleasant.

I've had a white Kitchener-style helmet for years. Sweltering summer temperatures aren't foreign to us in this part of the South. I've found mine to be more comfortable than woolen head covers.

My helmet has a vent at the top and a suspension headband. I can actually feel air circulating inside at times. Perhaps the manufacturer has everything to do with how comfortable these lids can be.

I don't wear the helmet often - it really only matches a military-style tunic or possibly khaki shirt & associated kit. Here the demand for such a thing is limited. Almost always it's at funerals and the khaki would be too informal, so that leaves the ever so sauna-like tunic. Obtaining a cotton white tunic as retailed by www.glengarryhats.com seems to be a better alternative to my woolen model.

My only real complaint is keeping the bass drone from occasionally striking the helmet's brim and knocking the helmet askew.

Slainte yall,
steve

Oh, you have breezes? A lot of time we get thick, stagnant air. But, I may reconsider anyway. I think "Wee Willie Winkie" was my first intro into pipes and kilts when I was a wee one myself. I thought about the white doublet at GlengarryHats, but does white cotton yellow over time?