I'm a hat person.

[QB Fox]

I spent my almost my whole life growing up thinking I didn't like hats.

Somewhere in the last ten years I realised this was wrong. I am a hat person. Now I have cupboard exclusively for hats. It's a big cupboard.
Here is a random selection of my headgear (photographed for a different purpose).


I am now thinking that I need a flying helmet for wearing during WoG and at other times.
Can anyone advise?

I play WGF, so the more retro the better, I think.

Among the collections of original, claim to be original and nasty replica WW2 Leather Flying Helmets on ebay I found this:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Flyers-Fly...-/111070570564

I'd appreciate thoughts on this or anything alternatives....

[Nightbomber]

Definitely you shoud have one like that
I bought a poor replica of thing like that and hope to use it soon

[flash]

Looks the part !

[Flying Officer Kyte]

Looks the part !

And don't forget the white silk scarf and pipe.
Rob.

[Flying Helmut]

That's the one I have!
My goggles are a bit more flash than that, and I have a white silk scarf, a monocle and a selection of medals - all bought from ebay.

Pipe? - ooh, no!

[Flying Helmut]

drat, double post again!

[Guntruck]

How about one of these? If you get shot down during a game, no-one will know it was you.

(Thinks: better get one for Kyte...)

[QB Fox]

My goggles are a bit more flash than that...

Goggles not included.

[Grey]

I have an old flying hat, jacket (repro), goggles, and silk scarf I bought years ago for....motorcycling.

[milcoll73]

I spent my almost my whole life growing up thinking I didn't like hats.

Somewhere in the last ten years I realised this was wrong. I am a hat person. Now I have cupboard exclusively for hats. It's a big cupboard.
Here is a random selection of my headgear (photographed for a different purpose).


I am now thinking that I need a flying helmet for wearing during WoG and at other times.
Can anyone advise?

I play WGF, so the more retro the better, I think.

Among the collections of original, claim to be original and nasty replica WW2 Leather Flying Helmets on ebay I found this:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Flyers-Fly...-/111070570564

I'd appreciate thoughts on this or anything alternatives....

its actually a copy of a japanese ww1-1930s era flight helmet and not a bad one at that. i got a cheaper cloth version at origins.

[milcoll73]

i guess you could say im a hat person as well

[csadn]

[sigh] I used to have one from my star-turn as Snoopy in _You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown_. (Yes, he gets a monologue themed around chasing the Red Baron.)

[gully_raker]

G'day Fox!
Mate looks like you have a Hat for all seasons!
Great collection.

I too have a replica WW1 flying helmet that I wear for Games nights & Cons.

[Flying Officer Kyte]

[sigh] I used to have one from my star-turn as Snoopy in _You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown_. (Yes, he gets a monologue themed around chasing the Red Baron.)

I must look out my Snoopy ears and nose, from the years when I used to be the Easter Beagle for the kids at our Easter training camps.
Rob.

[Grey]

"The Easter Bunnies: Long-distance Reconnaissance by the German Luftwaffe over Poland, France, England and the Atlantic 1938-1945"

"The Easter Bunnies was the nickname Staffelkapitan Liebe-Piderit gave to the five young men who joined the 3rd Squadron of the Fernaufklarungsgruppe 123 in Hanau am Main at the end of March 1940. "

[QB Fox]

The flying helmet has arrived and is every bit as good as you could want.

[Jager]

I'm impressed with your collection of medieval helmets.
Karl

[QB Fox]

I'm impressed with your collection of medieval helmets.
Karl

Thank you.
There's at least one missing from the photograph.

And somewhere there is appropriate harness to go with them.
It's a similar addiction to the one I exhibit here, but the symptoms are more serious and the treatment more expensive.

[QB Fox]

My other, not entirely unrelated, affliction....

[Jager]

One that I share, though perhaps not in so many centuries!

Karl

[csadn]

My other, not entirely unrelated, affliction....

And "Admit the truth -- this is the chance we've hoped for all our lives!" >;)

[ http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/songs/serious-steel.html ]

[Diamondback]

Fox, check out The Fedora Lounge (www.thefedoralounge.com) --it's just about everything you could want to know about hats from the first half of the 20th Century and the garments worn with them. Be warned, though, there is some real snobbery there... and if you do go, tell 'em I sent you. (Just to rub their noses in it, the Nose In Air clique among the members there don't like me much. LOL)

[gully_raker]

Fox, check out The Fedora Lounge (www.thefedoralounge.com) --it's just about everything you could want to know about hats from the first half of the 20th Century and the garments worn with them. Be warned, though, there is some real snobbery there... and if you do go, tell 'em I sent you. (Just to rub their noses in it, the Nose In Air clique among the members there don't like me much. LOL)

Way to go!

[Diamondback]

Yeah, there are a couple admins who like me, but a lot of the founding members have the attitude that "if you don't dress to the nines in 1940s Vintage 24-7-365, not even repro acceptable, you are Subhuman."

[milcoll73]

Fox, check out The Fedora Lounge (www.thefedoralounge.com) --it's just about everything you could want to know about hats from the first half of the 20th Century and the garments worn with them. Be warned, though, there is some real snobbery there... and if you do go, tell 'em I sent you. (Just to rub their noses in it, the Nose In Air clique among the members there don't like me much. LOL)

so does the site have info and pics about actual vintage ww1 and 2 gear or just repro stuff?

[Jager]

And "Admit the truth -- this is the chance we've hoped for all our lives!" >

[ http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/songs/serious-steel.html ]

[QB Fox]

Fox, check out The Fedora Lounge...

Ah. '30s and '40s elegance? Not really playing to my strengths, I'm afraid.

Right now I have a hard stop at the outbreak of war in 1914, and suspension of the suffrage movement.

If you can't be roughed up by a posh woman in a sash, frankly, what's the point?

[Diamondback]

so does the site have info and pics about actual vintage ww1 and 2 gear or just repro stuff?

Phillip, both--they do have a strong reenactor presence, but like I said, there's a schism in the community. Bear in mind, it's a forum, not a site--but any question you could imagine, there's probably somebody there with an answer. I'm mostly inactive in large part because one of the mods there was dating my gal's best friend (even had her move from Toronto to California) and screwed her over, without even offering to pay for her ticket home--and the character of site staff is a direct reflection on integrity of a community IMO.

[Flying Officer Kyte]

You don't need a hat if you have real style.





Rob.

[Diamondback]

What's with the animal on your head?

[Flying Officer Kyte]

That my dear chap is a periwig. These animals are the height of sartorial elegance. Don't you know what! they are even worn on occasions by some eminent Legal Eagle Polish members at the bar.
Kyte.

[Jager]

That my dear chap is a periwig. These animals are the height of sartorial elegance. Don't you know what! they are even worn on occasions by some eminent Legal Eagle Polish members at the bar.
Kyte.

That, we need pictures posted
Karl

[csadn]

That my dear chap is a periwig. These animals are the height of sartorial elegance.

Oh -- I thought a tribble was performing an indecent act on your scalp. >:)

Or is that just William Shatner? >;)

[gully_raker]

Oh -- I thought a tribble was performing an indecent act on your scalp. >

Or is that just William Shatner? >

Thank the Lord its not a Honey Badger!

[milcoll73]

Phillip, both--they do have a strong reenactor presence, but like I said, there's a schism in the community. Bear in mind, it's a forum, not a site--but any question you could imagine, there's probably somebody there with an answer. I'm mostly inactive in large part because one of the mods there was dating my gal's best friend (even had her move from Toronto to California) and screwed her over, without even offering to pay for her ticket home--and the character of site staff is a direct reflection on integrity of a community IMO.

sounds like pretty much a no go for me then. the last thing i need is more internet "drama" in my life. sounds like its a good yardstick for how nice and friendly THIS sit is though!!!!

[Flying Officer Kyte]

That, we need pictures posted
Karl

I'm afraid that we must get permission from said Legal Eagle before indulging in such a revelation.
I on the other hand as a closet wig wearer have come out of the hat box.
Rob.

[Nightbomber]

Here goes the Eagle in that official hat

[QB Fox]

Wiggage!

[Nightbomber]

Nice one

[QB Fox]

Über Wiggage!

[csadn]

:eek: Thank the Lord its not a Honey Badger!

A Honey Badger would not be visible in a head-shot.

(At least not *that* kind of "head shot". >;) )

[Mrs Kyte]

HI Fox................it's good to see you looking so fine.
I've had to ask a few friends round to model a selection of our hats (mine and Kyte's ).




Can you spot us in the photo?
Eileen

[QB Fox]

.

[Mrs Kyte]

Okay, it was a group photo of the Embroiderers' Guild after my talk on costume.
Eileen

[QB Fox]

The new flying helmet, as worn at last night's Dolphins vs Raiders game.

[Flying Officer Kyte]

Every other inch the scrum half Fox.
Rob.

And every other inch the pilot.
Kyte.

[flyingryno]

I need flight helmet so I need to start looking for to go with my coif and full chainmail I made for the ren fair since I for ren fair.

[Guntruck]

HI Fox................it's good to see you looking so fine.
I've had to ask a few friends round to model a selection of our hats (mine and Kyte's ).




Can you spot us in the photo?
Eileen

The woman second from right at the back has let herself go...

[csadn]

The woman second from right at the back has let herself go...:lol:

Clearly she's a Hairy-dan.... >;)

[Flying Officer Kyte]

Clearly she's a Hairy-dan.... >

That's so bad, it's actually good Chris.
Rob.