I was going to ask this in GQ, but I found a video.
Every turban I’ve seen a Sikh wearing has been very nicely wound. I’ve always wondered how they do it. Now I know.
ETA: Reported for typo in the title.
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Canadian military regulations have a detailed explanation as to how a Canadian soldier wearing a turban must have it wound, and I’m talking down to the precise angle of the peak in the front and all that. I’ve always wondered what you’d do if you got to that point and it wasn’t quite right. “Aw, shit.”
I wonder if anybody makes pre-wound turbans, kinda like clip-on ties.
I’m ignorant. I just always assumed they kept them wound all the time, and just plopped them on their head in the morning. As much as I thought about it at all, anyway. And no, I don’t meet or see Sikhs very often around here.
But then they’d fall off.
Toronto car dealer Nav “Superfan” Bhatia has a selection of turbans specially ordered to ensure he always has one to precisely match the Toronto Raptors’ home uniform color. Bhatia has never missed a home game. (He also wears Blue Jays blue to their games, but isn’t as obsessive about it.)
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Thank you, Colibri.
Was that a cap the Sikh in the video was wearing, or was his hair bound up somehow?
But thanks for the video - another one of those things I would be afraid to ask about, and I used to work for a Sikh manager.
Regards,
Shodan
It’s a cap. One of the things I wondered was whether they wrapped their hair in the turban. In the video, I see it’s a cap, and it occurs to me that I’ve seen small edges of the cap under turbans IRL. :smack:
I’ve never been afraid of asking. I’ve just never found anyone who spoke English well enough to explain it to me. The closest I got was one kid who said, ‘We just wrap it around.’
I’m not Sikh but was in a Sikh wedding party one time. That included wearing a turban. I had no idea how to wind a turban but the groom’s father basically did it for me. he wound it into my hair. It was at no time in danger of falling off.
There’s an internet-famous Sikh man from Canada who goes by the name JusReign, and he’s got an internet-famous video on How to Tie a Turban (Pagh) – check it out! It’s pretty comprehensive, and includes even an intro on how to wash the fabric before you use it.
He also has a related video, on how he was forced to remove his turban at a US airport (relevant part of the story starts at 02:50).
I was wondering about the cap too. I guess I always just assumed the bulk came from winding the hair into the turban (my understanding is that Sikhs don’t cut their hair, so I figured there was a lot of hair wound up on top of their heads.)
The guy in the cubicle next to me at work is a Sikh, and is always well-dressed with color-coordinated turbans. I’m sure he’d be happy to explain how it’s wound, but yeah I’d just be too embarrassed to ask in the first place.
Yo, watch the video I linked to! He demonstrates how he wraps his hair and puts on the pre-turban headwrap (patka) at 5:16.
You’d think some enterprising person would invent a mechanical turban-winder that people could just stick their heads into. I’m picturing something like a bowling ball cleaner.
Meh, I bet a respectful question about the mechanics of a turban would be welcomed. May help break any ice around your guys’ different clothing cultures.
The fez was originally a core around which the Turks wrapped their turbans. They took things a little further:
Although Chimera’s link demonstrates that Sikhs can certainly give Turks a run for their money.
Would it be cheating to have Velcro on the hat and turban?