Re: Quick question - headgear for the IF troops…?

You mean the shermagh?

https://www.amazon.com/Premium-Shemagh-Head-Neck-Scarf/dp/B0079CT8Y6

On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Jon Tuffley <jon@gzg.com> wrote:

> Hi all, a quick query to the GZG-ListMind….
>
> This is an odd little question that I've been trying to find the
answer to
> online, but obviously my Google-Fu is weak today - wondering if anyone
here
> knows it, or can find it more easily than I can….
> As most of you already know I do versions of the Islamic Federation
troops
> in both 15mm and 25mm wearing the traditional "Keffiyeh", which I've
always
> understood to be the name (or maybe just one of the names) of the
classic
> "chequered teatowel with the headband band round it" (I'm using this
as a
> purely descriptive term, not with any non-PC meaning to it!), SAS/LRDG
> /Lawrence of Arabia style. But what I can't find is a name for the the
> longer cloth or scarf worn wound around the head turban-style, with
the
> ends either over the shoulders or wrapped across the face as a
sand-mask;
> is it still simply called a Turban, or is there a better term for it?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Jon (GZG)
>