I plead the Pith: a History of the Pith Helmet

"Oh gee don't want to tell you what to do but cannibalism is bad.... Sorry just being a white colonizer."

I love to wear my Pith Helmet when I go out with my mates on a friday and saturday night, because it helps when I am too pithed to see where I am going...

If you want to get a hat get a head.

I set mine down for just a moment and someone stole it. I was Pithed Off

A friends of ours in the Washington, DC, area had a pith helmet with a little battery powered fan in it for very hot days. A novelty with practical value!

THANKYOU I NOW KNOW WHY WE HAVE A PUGGAREE ON OUR SLOUCH HATS..

Do you know what doesn't work well in a hot climate? Tweed.

Another great video

I had a styrofoam version of a pith helmet as a kid.

Somehow you managed to forget Dark Helmet's desert Pith helmet. I believe it deserves a mention ;)

I have a pith helmet. My wife thays it lookth very nith.

self hate

Please try harder in understanding that when you normalize the worst thing that happened to this world, you come off as an insensitive jerk playing dress-up who doesn't want to admit that invasion and genocide are wrong. Really, it is too much to see you smiling and rattling off "history" from the exclusive viewpoint of greedy imperialistic genociders. This video feels like blackface x10 and I sincerely hope your perspective is capable of change.

With my recent interest in hats, this channel is such a wonderful discovery :)

Me wife thinks Im sitting here watching porn lol

Its shape if not function remains in some Polo helmets till this day .

Pithy

I always thought it was called a pith helmet, because you wore it in the jungle to stop the monkeys pithing on your head. 
Seriously though, I have a Vietnamese style one that I bought in Hanoi years ago. It's great for working in the yard, but I do find it tends to reflect sounds, so my lawnmower seems louder than normal.

I have a pith helmet to work bees in the hot summer. Nothing works better. I have owned many for at least 45 years.

I’ve got one for when i get on the Pith.

Viscount is pronounced veye count. Not vis count.

Not many know this but I was stationed in the Marines in 1954 at 29 palms, California. We were issued pith helmets.

Super matériel! J'ai sub!
Je dois admettre que j'aurais un certain malaise à porter ce chapeau, disont qu'il est plus légér que son bagage historique. 😅
Salutations de Montréal.

This was great! My first but not list video from this channel. I find hats or headwear so interesting, and often wonder how they developed into the shapes and roles that they have. I've been living in Korea for over 20 years now, and marvel at all the different headwear worn throughout their history. Period dramas are an all-you-can-eat buffet of some of the most unusual, unique pieces to ever adorn a head, each one I'm sure signifying a certain class or role in society. If you haven't done so already, I'd really love to see a vid on this! Or a series, as there are so many, and perhaps have their origins in other neighboring Asian nations.

I used to wear a "turtle shell" when I did farm work as a child

What kind of pith was used, how it was grown/collected, and molded into that shape, subject for another video? The amount of different materials people used before plastics is staggering.

Jay Santos, Sub-Commander of the Citizens' Auxiliary Police wears the Pith helmet too.

Even in Star Wars, the Pith Lords wear Pith Helmets.

Very interesting. I was issued a pith helmet along with a number of other Marines in the summer of 1970 at the Naval Air Station in Glenview Illinois. We were tasked with judging the national model airplane competition held on the base that year. The pith helmets were to distinguish us as judges apart from regular duty personnel. I still have it and still wear it to keep the sun and the rain off my head and my glasses.

I have an American version I wore while working on the Puuloa Rifle Range. Thanks for this. Excellent video.

I love the pith helmet. Unfortunately no one makes one big enough for my gargantuan noggin. 🙁

Could REALLY do without the anti-colonial and anti-White angle.

Don’t take the pith 😂

I always thought they were called that because when you were in the jungle it would prevent the monkeys from pithing on your head.

The Philippine Commonwealth Army of WW2 wore a helmet of pressed coconut fiber called the guinit cap, which resembled the European pith helmet. In away, completing the circle, having originated in the Philippines as the salakot and returning in an unrecognizable form.

2.59 minutes in who else thought of a phase 1 clone trooper

This hat symbolises bringing greatness to people who’ve never seen such greatness😂bringing civilisation to savages and allowing savages to become part of something bigger than themselves
Associated with that and adventurers🎉

The French one is the best looking

This one seems a bit less serious than your other episodes, almost like you’re taking the pith

You ought to see the pith helmets worn by the male dancers in Lady Gaga's "Alejandro" music video lol

I wore one for ceremonial duties as a British, Royal Marine.
However our most iconic headgear was the commando Green Beret.
I earned my beret in 1970 and still have it.

I Love It!!!

"Pagari" is actually the Hindi/Urdu word for "turban," and its early use on the pith helmet mirrors certain styles of turban worn by Indian troops.

Every interesting video and a really awesome explanation! I wish we could see more examples of early civilian helmets! Right now it seems that so many of the surviving helmets of today are all military! Was the "Bombay Bowler" something that was worn before the 1930-40s?

Please cut the white guilt. I’m here for fashion history, not race baiting, thank you.

I have a “Zulu” version the helmet that I intend to use as a costume item but it ended up being my favorite outdoor hat.

Hoy! Philippines! Philippines!

Some twenty years ago, we stopped for refuelling at a British American base in the Indian ocean. There was only one store on the island, and in the service clothing section were about 40 of these helmets. Since I was the first one to find the store, I ask the clerk if these hats were available for sale, and the lady said sure. No one had touched these hats in years since everyone posted to that island brought their own. I told her she would have none left by the end of the day, and she gave me a sceptical look. I bought one for 7.50$ US, which I thought was a pretty good price.

On my way to the beach I saw others from the ship, and they asked me where I found the cool hat. I pointed to the store, and from what I could see, all the hats were sold in less than 10 minutes. Not only did my fellow sailors bought all the hats, they bought any other exotic piece of souvenirs they could. They cleaned out the shop.

I went back to the store later out of curiosity. The lady tending the store told me I was wrong. Not only were all the Pith helmets were gone, they were gone in less than an hour. She understood why we all bought them after she found out we were Canadian, and they are not part of our uniform kit.

There were about 40 of us wearing the Pith helmet on the ship for about a week. This lasted until the captain got fed up and banned the wearing of the "silly explorer hat" (according to him) while in uniform.

Nice Missouri flag on your wall, love from a Missourian myself.

It is still part of the United States Post Office uniform for summer wear!!! 🤠👍