Pith Helmets

**Ancienne Alliance** · 3rd February 11, 01:37 AM

Please check this out :

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/g...t-enthusiasts/

Best,

Robert

**walkerk** · 3rd February 11, 02:09 AM

Peter Suciu's books on sun helmets are an excellent reference and a good read.

http://www.nyc-techwriters.com/militaria/helmets.htm

**BoldHighlander** · 3rd February 11, 09:21 AM

Originally Posted by walkerk

Peter Suciu's books on sun helmets are an excellent reference and a good read.

http://www.nyc-techwriters.com/militaria/helmets.htm

Thanks for the link! ith:

**BoldHighlander** · 3rd February 11, 09:28 AM

Originally Posted by English Bloke

Here's a link to Military style Pith hemets (Think Michael Caine):
here.
and here.

I've got one of these pith helmets although I don't wear it much it must be said:

And the issue slouch hat from these chaps (bottom right) has been on my wish-list for about four years, although there are some smashin' hats elsewhere on this site if you're into bush hats.

Thanks for the links John!

I too, have always liked the ol' Aussie slouch hat

Originally Posted by Ancienne Alliance

Please check this out :

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/g...t-enthusiasts/

Thanks Robert! ith:

**Tartan Tess** · 3rd February 11, 03:42 AM

I wear the ventilated one that Beloitpiper has shown.
I love it! Has better airflow than any straw hat I have ever owned.

**BoldHighlander** · 5th February 11, 07:27 PM

Originally Posted by Tartan Tess

I wear the ventilated one that Beloitpiper has shown.
I love it! Has better airflow than any straw hat I have ever owned.

Thanks Tess....I like it & the one Ern has on too, they look like they'd be very nice to have on a hot, humid day!

**Mike_Oettle** · 8th February 11, 01:38 PM

Fascinating to see the variety of shapes among those pith helmets.
I still like the style of the type of hat worn (in white) by the British during the Zulu War and (in khaki) during the South African War.
My grandfather was issued one of the SA War variety when he was a magistrate, and my father occasionally wore it while on the farm.
The South African Army and South African Police wore the Wolseley pattern for many years. In fact if I recall correctly the SAP mounted unit was still wearing it for escort duties during the 1970s and ’80s.
In the SA Army, coloured flashes were worn on the left-hand side of the helmet – red and black for the Military Police, green and black for infantry, and so on. Brass badges were in some instances worn over these flashes.
During the Second World War, most regiments wore Wolseley pattern helmets, but the kilted regiments wore tammies or glengarries. When in action, everyone wore “soup plate” steel helmets.
In the Western Cape, postmen wore the Wolseley pattern helmet in white with a flashy silver badge in front showing a pillarbox within a star/sun emblem, with a red liner behind the badge.
The style I like least is the one associated with Vietnam.
And I do think Jamie (Panache) cuts a dashing figure in his pith helmet!
Regards,
Mike

**Lallans** · 8th February 11, 02:44 PM

For future reference, or perhaps there is a photo on the net somewhere, I can give some advice on what NOT to wear in the pith helmet line, and that is the model worn by the young romantic lead in the 1930 version of the film "Trader Horn," which ran on the Turner Classic Movie Channel earlier this week. The man had the most laughable looking pithy object on his head I've ever seen on a human being, from certain angles anyway. He looked like a three year old who had put on Daddy's hat. I missed the film's opening, or rather my DVR did, so it may well have been intended to make him look like a greenhorn but, intentionally funny or not, it was dead pathetic to see him in it. And of course, hilarious.

**Leonard (MacGregor)Tinker** · 8th February 11, 11:22 PM

For the record Uncle Ho and Vo Nguyen Giap first whipped the French and then they whipped the Americans. And the phrase Viet Cong was a perjoritive coined in Saigon. The proper name is NLFSV, for the National Liberation Front, South Viet Nam. Worst year of my life was in the Mekong delta.

**Whidbey78** · 9th February 11, 04:00 PM

Originally Posted by Canuck of NI

...The man had the most laughable looking pithy object on his head I've ever seen on a human being, from certain angles anyway. He looked like a three year old who had put on Daddy's hat. I missed the film's opening, or rather my DVR did, so it may well have been intended to make him look like a greenhorn but, intentionally funny or not, it was dead pathetic to see him in it. And of course, hilarious.

Kinda like Dark Helmet in Spaceballs?

Man, I gots ta get me one of them!