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

Both terms seem to be interchangeable.

This might also help: http://www.arabnews.com/fashion/news/769871

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keffiyeh

On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 10:37 AM, Jason Weiser <jason.weiser@gmail.com>
wrote:

> You mean the shermagh?
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> https://www.amazon.com/Premium-Shemagh-Head-Neck-Scarf/dp/B0079CT8Y6
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> On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Jon Tuffley <jon@gzg.com> wrote:
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>> 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)
>>
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