Sekela Forage Cap With Ventilator

[Rob]

Nick:--

Did my first event with the cap today. It was a hit.

Thanks again.

Rob G

[Ken]

Just thought an explanation of how these little things works was in order based on personal observations. One day on a trip to Gettysburg I brought two forage caps (I'm a hat junky!), one with the ventilator and one without. When I wore the cap without the ventilator my head heated up, and the heat was trapped in the cap. The sweat began to build and I started to get those annoying drips of sweat coming down from the sweatband rolling into my eyes and causing me to pull my handkerchief out every five minutes to wipe my face. When I switched to the cap with the ventilator, to put it simply, the rolling sweat ceased. The term ventilator may be a bit misleading as in conjures up a picture of air flow. What it really does is provides holes for the heat which can build up inside the cap to escape. The difference between the performances of the two caps was pretty striking.

[csuppelsa]

Do you notice a difference when the ventilator is functioning?

[NJ Sekela]

Guys:

Thank you so very much!

NJS

[AZReenactor]

Have you ever seen a reenactor punch holes in a cap?

JUst a couple of weeks ago I punched four holes in a M1858 undressed Army Hat with my bayonet. It certainly helped cool down my head here in AZ.

[reb64]

When I wore the cap without the ventilator my head heated up, and the heat was trapped in the cap. The sweat began to build and I started to get those annoying drips of sweat coming down from the sweatband rolling into my eyes and causing me to pull my handkerchief out every five minutes to wipe my face. When I switched to the cap with the ventilator, to put it simply, the rolling sweat ceased. The term ventilator may be a bit misleading as in conjures up a picture of air flow. What it really does is provides holes for the heat which can build up inside the cap to escape. The difference between the performances of the two caps was pretty striking.

how about just lifting your cap once in a while, 20 years of wearing heavy starched army caps can't recall that being a big problem in the US weather.

[Ken]

Lift your cap? Thanks but I'll stick with the ventilator.

[Rob]

Second that...

[reb64]

Lift your cap? Thanks but I'll stick with the ventilator.

Great, will just have to come up with some new names for you yanks wearing those, saly shaker boys? sifter heads? hey I wonder if any cs troops found those and ripped them out for their use

[Rob]

The name which comes immediately to mind is "Civil War winners".