Saltire Skull Cap?

[Nanook]

I was trying to think of the name of some other brimless men's caps other than the beanie, watch cap, and the fez.

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".

[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.

"Rick - you have to hide me, you're the only one who can save me... you must despise me."

"If I ever thought about you, I probably would."

(SNAP!!!)

[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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