Shemagh Wearing

[Lurch]

Just bought meself a shemagh from the guy at the WG.
Anyone able to tell me how this thing wraps 'round ones bonce?

[Tony]

Stuart is the man for that :wink:

[allenko]

http://www.actiongear.com/agcatalog/shemagh.html

Try this m8 best I could find on the web

Paul :wink:

[RAPPLEBY2000]

I've worn mine like that once late on a winter night i'd forgotten my hat, it worked a treat, they also serve many other purposes:

triangle bandage,
padding,
hot pot holder,
standard scarf,
can be used as a sarong(tropical skirt)
baby blanket,
shawl,
baby carrier,
towel,
sweat rag,
dust mask,
improvised: sock, glove.

it's not prehaps ideal to be wearing the scarf, full covered arabian style in public in the present political atmousphere :shock: :roll:

they are cotton too, so will dye according to your colour preferance.

and cheap, you can buy them in "newage/ hippy" :hurra: shops for around £5! :biggthump

well worth investing in, so long as you figure out how to use it! :wink:

[Stuart]

there are litrally hundreds of ways of wearing a shemagh (as well as hundreds of uses for them)

my favourate (and very adaptable way) of wearing them is as illistrated in the link below:

http://www.khs-pro.de/tacticalsource...anleitung.html

if you can get one with as tight a weave as possible

[Buckshot]

Stuart,

I tried wearing mine like that but I found it wasn't big enough.
I bought mine from the local army surplus, it's the green and black one.

Do shemaghs come in different sizes or have I just got a big head?

Cheers

Mark

[leon-1]

Stuart,

I tried wearing mine like that but I found it wasn't big enough.
I bought mine from the local army surplus, it's the green and black one.

Do shemaghs come in different sizes or have I just got a big head?

Cheers

Mark

Shemaghs come in different sizes, I got one of mine in Kuwait and was measured up for it :-).

You'll find that all the green ones appear to be one standard size though, you may be better off getting an issue desert one (they are a bit larger) and trying to dye it. The desert ones are quite thin but still work in the UK very well.

[Keith_Beef]

there are litrally hundreds of ways of wearing a shemagh (as well as hundreds of uses for them)

my favourate (and very adaptable way) of wearing them is as illistrated in the link below:

http://www.khs-pro.de/tacticalsource...anleitung.html

if you can get one with as tight a weave as possible

Thanks, Stu.

The pictures are clear enough, without the German text.

But what approximate size and shape are those Tuareg sheks?

Keith.

[hobbitboy]

HEHE! My old geology teacher used to work in Oman and bought a shemagh back with him. He always took it on field trips, which was great especially the looks he'd get from passing locals ): then the locals gaze would usually fall on a load of really hungover 18yearolds :roll:

Happy days! :wink:

[Great Pebble]

One of the original pink variety, as in the German illustrations, will also do a fair job of filtering water.
There is however some reason, and I can't remember what, why they stopped issuing them and went to the chunkier olive/black variety. Not that it matters I suppose.

[familne]

Run it through Babel fish to get English text, still doesn't make much sense though!

[Tantalus]

translated text :wink:

Traditional Tuareg headgear . As used by french army desert units . The light material provides sun protection and also a degree of cooling for the head.

1 Lay the cloth out lenghtwise then place over your head so that the short end comes down over your chest and the head is covered

2 Take the long end under your chin and over the short end

3 Twist the long end and pass it from behind your head around across your forehead

4 Keep the twisted end going round your head towards the back again

5 Tuck the loose end under the "crown" you just made

6 Done !

7 Simply pull the part under the chin up over your mouth and nose to protect yourself from dust

HTH
Tant

[Lurch]

Cheers chaps.
It's been a long long time since GCSE German, so the translation is appreciated too.

[sargey]

well, following one of our superb logos, i'm going to BCUK the trend....

i was going to say, throw the shemagh in the bin and get a cheche...

the bit of headgear shown in that german link is a cheche, (pronounced shesh) they're about six feet long and much more wearable than a shemagh. on top of all the uses previously mentioned, you can have a much more enjoyable siesta, soak the cheche in water and drap it over you. keeps you cool in the heat of the day and very importantly keep the flies off. :super:

cheers, and.

[Keith_Beef]

Thanks, Stu.

The pictures are clear enough, without the German text.

But what approximate size and shape are those Tuareg sheks?

Keith.

Ah, a bit of research, and I've answered my own question:


Doursoux surplus in Paris describes them as being 1 metre × 2.40 metres

Called a "cheiche", on the site, Doursoux wants EUR15 for them, in black, white or sand.

http://www.doursoux.com/popup.php?id_prod=323&


Keith.

[leon-1]

Ah, a bit of research, and I've answered my own question:


Doursoux surplus in Paris describes them as being 1 metre × 2.40 metres

Called a "cheiche", on the site, Doursoux wants EUR15 for them, in black, white or sand.

http://www.doursoux.com/popup.php?id_prod=323&


Keith.

0ff the top of my head (no pun intended) thats about a tenner, not bad, most of the shemaghs that I have come across are square, but this sounds a good alternative, good hit :biggthump

[The General]

All I can say is I really want one like Stuart had at the MM meet!

[Exploriment]

This should help. From the terrific Military Morons site
How to tie a shemagh

[Lurch]

That link comes up password required...

[Adi007]

The box tells you what the required password is (mm) ... it is a primative form of protection from bandwidth being used up by people linking to images.

[JakeR]

We should try to find all the uses of the shemagh, like Hitch Hikers guide (except no with towels). In case you didnt know, the babel fish was in the hitck Hikers guide!

[Chopper]

USMC in Portsmouth sell the "Cheches" head scarves in light tan, black and central-european cammo for £8.95.
Their phone number is 0870-7525500. :-P

[ChrisKavanaugh]

You lot look like a bunch of bored Elvis impersonators who just discovered T.E. Lawrence I want a real brit brolly to go with my sabre while reading Sir Richard Burton's fascinating works. Seriously, I do, really. Any websites? No Red Chinese rubbish either.

[Jon]

You lot look like a bunch of bored Elvis impersonators who just discovered T.E. Lawrence I want a real brit brolly to go with my sabre while reading Sir Richard Burton's fascinating works. Seriously, I do, really. Any websites? No Red Chinese rubbish either.

Hi Chris, these guys are the real deal, New Oxford Street in London. Unfortunately no webshop but interesting anyway.
http://www.james-smith.co.uk/main.htm

[Keith_Beef]

You lot look like a bunch of bored Elvis impersonators who just discovered T.E. Lawrence I want a real brit brolly to go with my sabre while reading Sir Richard Burton's fascinating works. Seriously, I do, really. Any websites? No Red Chinese rubbish either.

The T.E.Lawrence brigade are still trying to buy Brough Superiors.

Are you working through the whole of Burton's translations done for the Kama Shastra sociesty?


Keith.

[havingagiraffe]

Do shemaghs come in different sizes or have I just got a big head?

I know this is an old thread, but.....

I've just bought a cheap shemagh off ebay. Under a fiver with free P&P. I excitedly tried the wrapping techniques recommended on this thread but gave up when none of them seemed to add up. Then I got my tape measure out. The shemagh barely measures three feet by three and a half feet. Nowhere near the four to five feet square you need to do a convincing Lawrence of Arabia impersonation. No wonder it was cheap. Oh well, it'll make a nice table cloth.

i was going to say, throw the shemagh in the bin and get a cheche...

I don't want to buy another shemagh, so I think I'll hem a piece of cotton to make a 6' x 4' cheche. The German links for cheche tying no longer work, so I'm hoping that some desert dwelling bushcrafter can offer a few pointers on how to tie it.

[Motorbike Man]

I know this is an old thread, but.....

I've just bought a cheap shemagh off ebay. Under a fiver with free P&P. I excitedly tried the wrapping techniques recommended on this thread but gave up when none of them seemed to add up. Then I got my tape measure out. The shemagh barely measures three feet by three and a half feet. Nowhere near the four to five feet square you need to do a convincing Lawrence of Arabia impersonation. No wonder it was cheap. Oh well, it'll make a nice table cloth.



I don't want to buy another shemagh, so I think I'll hem a piece of cotton to make a 6' x 4' cheche. The German links for cheche tying no longer work, so I'm hoping that some desert dwelling bushcrafter can offer a few pointers on how to tie it.

If what you've got is what I think you've got, I used one for years on a motor bike as a scarf and for that they were superb. I used to wear mine by folding it into a triangle with the tip hanging down my chest, wrap ends around my neck so that they crossed over at the back of my neck and then dangle down my chest. Made a huge difference to staying warm.

[havingagiraffe]

If what you've got is what I think you've got, I used one for years on a motor bike as a scarf and for that they were superb. I used to wear mine by folding it into a triangle with the tip hanging down my chest, wrap ends around my neck so that they crossed over at the back of my neck and then dangle down my chest. Made a huge difference to staying warm.

Yup, that's exactly what I've got. You're right, it makes a great scarf. Unfortunately, that's not what I had in mind when I bought it. I was actually looking for something the same but bigger so I can look like BCUK moderator Stuart's avatar.

[Motorbike Man]

Yup, that's exactly what I've got. You're right, it makes a great scarf. Unfortunately, that's not what I had in mind when I bought it. I was actually looking for something the same but bigger so I can look like BCUK moderator Stuart's avatar.

I reckon your best bet for that would be to hem a couple of metres of muslin or light weight cotton

[scruff]

If what you've got is what I think you've got, I used one for years on a motor bike as a scarf and for that they were superb. I used to wear mine by folding it into a triangle with the tip hanging down my chest, wrap ends around my neck so that they crossed over at the back of my neck and then dangle down my chest. Made a huge difference to staying warm.

hey thats exactly how i wear mine!

i'm seldom seen without esp this time of year.its fantastic.

i got it five or six years ago when i asked my folks to bring me back one from egypt. its the real deal not like alot of these that seemed to have cropped up of late (some music-student-fop-fashion thing!).

genuine egyptian cotton...mmmm....luuuuvly