When I start sweating heavily, I tend to take stuff off instead of adding to my wardrobe. My Dad tried for years to get me to wear long sleeve shirts while working in the field. He said it was cooler but I never found that to be true. In fact, most of my younger years, I wore no shirt at all. An no, I do not have skin cancers as a result. miles
The style I used was very light weight material. Wrapped around my neck to prevent the chaffing and then the extra to wipe eyes etc. Just enough to keep some sun off but let a breeze through. The ones I'm seeing Stateside seem really thick and not suited for hot weather.
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
thats interesting Miles....in general i dont care for long sleeves but one thing that will get me to wear them is being out in the sun cause i do feel cooler without the sun beating on my skin....infact just bought a number of long sleeved "cooling fabric" shirts cause ill be outside alot this summer......used to piss Darla off cause took an act of congress to get me in a nice long sleeved shirt for a dinner or such but one of my Columbia or Cabelas long sleeved shirts would be what i grabbed when heading out on the boat....course the difference being i had to button up the nice shirts to the point i felt strangled
I've have never been a cattleman, so I'd look just as dumb with a western button up as I would with a Stetson, but I was introduced to the LLBean SPF 50 shirts a couple years ago and find they really keep me cool. I'm not sure how they work, but they do block the sun without trapping body heat. Pretty damn nifty trick. BTW, I tried a Columbia long sleeve before that, and it didn't work nearly as well. It wasn't SPF rated, and that does make a difference.
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When I start sweating heavily, I tend to take stuff off instead of adding to my wardrobe. My Dad tried for years to get me to wear long sleeve shirts while working in the field. He said it was cooler but I never found that to be true. In fact, most of my younger years, I wore no shirt at all. An no, I do not have skin cancers as a result. miles
The style I used was very light weight material. Wrapped around my neck to prevent the chaffing and then the extra to wipe eyes etc. Just enough to keep some sun off but let a breeze through. The ones I'm seeing Stateside seem really thick and not suited for hot weather.
the Buff's and long sleeved shirts i wear let the slightest breeze through which helps with keeping cool....the fact they collect the sweat off the skin makes them into a lil swamp cooler if you live in a dry area with any breeze, like where i do.....
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"Tanks for the Memories: Steven Seagal Rolls Heavy Armour into Living Room, Kills Puppy Sep. 1, 2011 6:05pm Becket Adams"
"CRIME Tanks for the Memories: Steven Seagal Rolls Heavy Armour into Living Room, Kills Puppy Sep. 1, 2011 6:05pm Becket Adams 49 SHARES Share ThisTweet This Steven Seagal Rolls Tank Into Living Room, Kills Puppy Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, right, talks with actor Steven Seagal, who was visiting the sheriff, after holding a news conference announcing his latest crime suppression illegal immigration operation sweep at the Maricopa County Sheriff's Training Academy Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Arizona Republic, Jack Kurtz) What’s more awesome than driving a tank? Driving a tank into someone’s living room.
That must have been what what 80′s action hero Steven Seagal was thinking when he decided to accompany Sheriff Joe Arpaio on a raid of an Arizona man accused of running of cock-fighting ring.
The target, Jesus Llovera’s, was suspected of illicit gambling and animal cruelty. Somewhere in the mix, Arizona law enforcement thought that an appropriate response would involve several armored cars, a tank, and dozens of sheriff’s deputies in full riot gear.
Almost like sandblasting a cracker, isn’t it?
Robert Campus, Llovera’s attorney, believes the entire raid was staged to help actor Steven Seagal’s TV show, “Lawman.” Seagal was riding in the tank. The Sheriff’s Department has entered into a contract with Seagal and part of that contract gives Seagal carte blanche to go along with the sheriff as he arrests people.
However, according to a recent Forbes article, “Seagal told a local radio station that animal cruelty was one of his pet peeves, and since the bust was an animal cruelty bust, Seagal decided to go along for the ride.”
Oddly enough, no one told him that rolling a tank into a living room filled with animals might pose as a threat to, well, the animals. The raid ended up killing “hundreds” of roosters (looks like Llovera was running a cock-fighting ring after all) and the family’s puppy in the process.
The fallout of this whole bizarre episode? Segal is being sued for more than $100,000 by Llovera, who is also demanding a written apology from Seagal to his children for killing their puppy.
Folks, we are not making this up."
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thats interesting Miles....in general i dont care for long sleeves but one thing that will get me to wear them is being out in the sun cause i do feel cooler without the sun beating on my skin....infact just bought a number of long sleeved "cooling fabric" shirts cause ill be outside alot this summer......used to piss Darla off cause took an act of congress to get me in a nice long sleeved shirt for a dinner or such but one of my Columbia or Cabelas long sleeved shirts would be what i grabbed when heading out on the boat....course the difference being i had to button up the nice shirts to the point i felt strangled
I've have never been a cattleman, so I'd look just as dumb with a western button up as I would with a Stetson, but I was introduced to the LLBean SPF 50 shirts a couple years ago and find they really keep me cool. I'm not sure how they work, but they do block the sun without trapping body heat. Pretty damn nifty trick. BTW, I tried a Columbia long sleeve before that, and it didn't work nearly as well. It wasn't SPF rated, and that does make a difference.
Columbia makes shirts all over the map as far as fabric and SPF rating....chances are they have something like your LL Bean.....i just tend to by Columbia cause i buy alot of this kinda stuff at a discount over "new release prices" from Sierra Trading Post and they get in alot of Columbia stuff so its been my default....with releases every year alot of the shirts i like and work well run $30-40 plus, even t-shirt style....but i pick up last years models for $5-25 from STP especially ones im gonna wear for work which will get trashed pretty fast....
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"Sheriff Joe Arpaio: Steven Seagal could win GOP primary for Arizona Governor"
"My message to my troops is if you see anybody carrying a gun on the streets of Milwaukee, we'll put them on the ground, take the gun away and then decide whether you have a right to carry it." - Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn
In the 70's lots of folks were wearing boonie hats whether they were in Vietnam or not. Same thing.
I wear a camo boonie while working( field Surveyor), It saves the top of my ears from becoming cancerous, though that will probably happen anyways. Mine is Camo because it was 4 bucks at Walmart on sale....
"My message to my troops is if you see anybody carrying a gun on the streets of Milwaukee, we'll put them on the ground, take the gun away and then decide whether you have a right to carry it." - Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn
When I was in, we did not have the Arabic shemaghs, but everyone wore the green muslin cravat as a scarf in the field in the warmer months. Worked good, especially when trying to keep dust out of your mouth/nose if moving by vehicle or to collect sweat under your kpot.
My favorite piece of snivel gear was the old sleeping bag hood liner that came with the heavy down bags. I wore those under my kpot in the winter.
Thats what I remember too. Back in the 1970's and 1980's we used to call them "drive-on rags". They were usually made from a 'misappropriated' medical cravat/bandages. Eventually the powers-that-be got tired of them and clamped down.
Looks like the current fad is to use Keffiyahs. The Brits used to issue them (or maybe still do) as "Shemaughs".
From what I remember, the black and white keffiyahs, back in the day, were used by Yassir Arafat as a political symbol. The red and white ones were used to denote support for King Hussein of Jordan.
I think the whole bushcraft thing has made a few things popular. Mors Kochanski teaches about a large scarf as a good thing to have cause it can be used for so many things. I don't have one but I do always carry a bandana. In winter I wear it around my neck and I also wear a beard. 1st day of spring I shave but still carry a bandana for many uses. I even carry a spare in my tool box. Great hard hat liner too.
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You tell me how I ought to be, yet you don't even know your own sexuality,, the philosopher,,, you know so much about nothing at all. Chuck Schuldiner
X 1000 !!! When I see the dumb ass kids nowadays wearing their ball cap with the bill on the side of their head, or also with a new hat with the bill mashed flat and straight, I just wanna walk up and slap their cap right off their friggin head and it's usually the meskins and the gang banger wanna be's around here.
Here in N. TX, with our area primarily being a Farming / Ranching AG based economy, most that don't wear a cowboy hat wear gimme ball caps and know how to properly wear one. All my nephews learned the hard way when they come to the Ranch, that you don't go around wearing your hat like some gang banger scum, or your jeans falling down off your ass
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Never saw anybody wearing a shemagh when I lived in Saudi Arabia in the '80s.
Thobes, yes — men's ankle-length white "dresses." Ghutras, yes — men's print head "napkins" (more like small table cloths). Agals, yes — we called 'em "fan belts."
Shemaghs, no.
One tribe wore ghutras without "fan belts." One of my buddies wondered aloud how the guys who wore 'em kept 'em on. Another buddy theorized "vacuum."
I think the whole bushcraft thing has made a few things popular. Mors Kochanski teaches about a large scarf as a good thing to have cause it can be used for so many things. I don't have one but I do always carry a bandana. In winter I wear it around my neck and I also wear a beard. 1st day of spring I shave but still carry a bandana for many uses. I even carry a spare in my tool box. Great hard hat liner too.
Agreed Seal Billy!
Real men and working cowboys around here wear bandanas and mostly use them to keep your neck from getting sunburned, or to keep blowing dust out of your mouth or nose. Also make a great sweat rag to dry your face, or wipe the sweat from your eyes.
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and it's usually the meskins and the gang banger wanna be's around here. 
