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Post by **hhfarang** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 10:13 am

Arcadian, maybe your post was a joke but I didn't see a smiley.

As I said in an earlier post, I looked and couldn't find a handkerchief here big enough to go around my head and tie. I really don't know if it's due to the size of my head or if (like most clothing here) hankies are made smaller for Thai people.

As for rolling up trouser legs and sleeves or removing a jacket... you must be kidding. I own exactly one pair of long trousers that I use for funerals and weddings and normally only wear short sleeved T-shirts here (ok, yes Super Joe, I do have a few Hawaiian shirts

). I have a couple of jackets somewhere but I haven't seen them in four years!

Post by **pfotoguy369** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 12:11 pm

I got mine at the bike show last year. Haven't seen any at the markets.
always on the lookout for them.

Helps save your hair from wearing helmets all the time.

Post by **dtaai-maai** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 12:47 pm

hhfarang wrote:Arcadian, maybe your post was a joke but I didn't see a smiley.

It was undoubtedly a joke, hhf, but a very 'British' one, I'm afraid. Knotted hankies and rolled up trousers are a classic vision of your average Brit at the seaside in the 50s - a sight to behold!

Post by **STEVE G** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 1:36 pm

dtaai-maai wrote:
hhfarang wrote:Arcadian, maybe your post was a joke but I didn't see a smiley.
It was undoubtedly a joke, hhf, but a very 'British' one, I'm afraid. Knotted hankies and rolled up trousers are a classic vision of your average Brit at the seaside in the 50s - a sight to behold! :shock:

The gentleman on the right is suitably attired.

Post by **dtaai-maai** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 1:49 pm

Brilliant, Steve! Now everyone can see why we Brits are the fashion icons of the modern world...

(... and what's that paper Robin Hood hat all about??

)

Post by **hhfarang** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 6:21 pm

Thanks for that photo Steve G!

As usual, the Brits were way ahead of the rest of us in their fashion sense. I don't know why people give the Parisians so much credit for that!

Post by **usual suspect** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 5:49 am

Eh-up there HHFarang.

Getting back to the plot (plot??) On Chomsin Rd,just up a coupla doors from the turning into the 'Market St' is a shop on ya left with a fat bundle of em hung up there waiting and winking at you to buy one/some.
(Tell me this is not gonna result in you ridin round town lookin like a bad-ass on your Fino/Click on 'Bike-weekend')

Post by **bozzman101** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 7:37 am

got a nice green one possibly for under army helmet

has air vents in both sides also a flap that will protect your neck for sun burn

have these on level 3 market village near esculator

15o bath if i remember rightly

Post by **hhfarang** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 9:23 am

Thanks Usual S and Bozzman!

Wow, I thought I had looked around town for them but obviously I wasn't looking in the right places. That one with the neck flap and air vents sounds very interesting and inventive.

I will have a look at both places.

(Tell me this is not gonna result in you ridin round town lookin like a bad-ass on your Fino/Click on 'Bike-weekend')

Don't worry, I drive an SUV... haven't ridden a bike (except motorbike taxis) since I was in my twenties and had a couple of dirt bikes.

I want these strictly for head sweat absorption!

...and I don't think anything would make me look like a bad-ass short of carrying a double barreled shotgun around with me!

Post by **Guess** » Sun Nov 23, 2008 8:52 am

hhfarang wrote:................ I don't know why people give the Parisians so much credit for that!

They didn't. Paris has given the world canvas suits, crumpled shirts and ladies with hairy armpits.

I think it is the Milanos who get the credit for leading the world in fashion.

Knotted handkerchiefs. Yorkshire
Bandanas. Mexico I think.

Another completely alternative approach to the sweat problem is the John McEnroe style wrist sweat band.