Young En And Boys And Their Wolly Hats

[mikey4444]

It been quite hot today, in Llanelli. abut 21 degrees, no breeze and no shade.

Every convertible driver for a ten mile radius brought their cars with them today into town, all with the roofs down....Its been like Monte Carlo, without the palm trees.

But at least 50% of the young chaps I have seen today have been wearing, big thick wooly hats, mostly with shorts and T-shirts !

Is it just me or what, but they must have been sweltering.

When I first learned to ski, in Grindelwald, as a school boy, I can recall our ski instructor telling us the quickest way to warm up or cool down, was to take our hats on or off, as most of the heat is lost through the head.

So.... I am guessing it must be a slavish fashion fad that I was witnessing today, which surprises me, as its normally girls and women that wear inappropriate and uncomfortable clothes purely for fashion reasons.

( dives for cover )

[ummmm]

That because that fact is actually a myth.

[Mamyalynne]

I asked this 'Young 'en' earlier...

Didn't get much sense tho.

http://tinyurl.com/hutq6j4

[Buenchico]

Get with it, Mikey
http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2015/nov/18/hipster-hats-the-art-of-helixing-harry-styles

and stop believing myths
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/dec/17/medicalresearch-humanbehaviour

;-)

[mikey4444]

Ummm...with respect, I don't think it is a myth.

In my younger, slimmer, fitter days, I was a keen skier, and also did a lot of mountain walking with the Scouts, and the on/off hat really does work !

But it doesn't change what I saw today...it was very hot and those lads must have been even hotter.

[bibblebub]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/qi/8258009/QI-Quite-interesting-facts-about-the-cold.html

Most of the heat is lost through the head - not true.

According to Professor Gordon Giesbrecht at the University of Manitoba, the world’s leading expert on cold weather survival, the head and neck are only 10 per cent of our body surface area and are no more efficient at losing heat than the rest of our skin.

[ummmm]

Have you ever slept in a cold room. What would you rather, a cold head or cold feet?

[mikey4444]

Well...I always keep a wooly hat or two in the car, all-year round, and it most certainly does make me feel warmer when it cold outside.

But leaving that aside, given the temperatures today, wearing a wooly can't possibly have make the boys feel cooler.

[mikey4444]

Ummm..from memory, none of the lads I saw today were shoeless.

And I have slept out in tents, when its been below freezing, and while a good sleeping bag is essential, I would often wear a wooly hat as well, and so did all my friends and Scout Leaders as well.

[ummmm]

Mikey, it's a myth that you lose most of your body heat through your head. No one is saying that wearing a woolie hat in winter doesn't make you feel warmer.

[Old_Geezer]

Well maybe one ought not believe all one reads but I have read an article some time past that said it was a myth, and that the head is no more a radiator of heat than any other exposed skin surface. But I guess you can experiment next winter. Keep your hat on when you go out in the snow but be sure to leave your trousers at home. Let us know how it goes.

[mikey4444]

Ummm...leaving aside whether its a myth or not, why would these lads have worn something that can only make them hotter ?

[ummmm]

Mikey...if I go to bed at night in a cold room it'll hard for me to get to sleep if my feet are cold....

[ummmm]

Mikey...I've never worn a woolly hat in hot weather but certainly wearing hats in the sun helps to keep you cooler.

[mikey4444]

Mainly because wearing a wide-brimmed keeps the sun of your face.

I wear a wide-brimmed hat, with ventilation holes in the hot weather, because I am worried about skin cancers.

But I can't see how a thick wooly hat could do the same ?

[jno]

people don't swelter nearly as much when they're young - at least, not as I recall. They don't shiver as much in winter either. I sometimes look at old photos of myself and wonder how I could have worn so much / so little clothing.

[mikey4444]

jno...there maybe something in what you say, although I still suspect slavish addiction to fashion to be a factor, at least.

And thanks for having a go at answering the question !

[Old_Geezer]

Peer pressure. Fashion would be a factor.

Much the same reason why in some places some go out in tee shirts when it's freezing.

[RATTER15]

Yes it is a fashion thing I'm afraid, and it really is not a great look on these hot days. I have three hats, a Russian border guard hat for when it is bitter cold, the flaps keep my ears warm, if its not so cold I have a woolly hat that I can pull down over my ears if need be, but most of the year I wear an Australian kangaroo skin bush hat, it keeps the sun off my head and off my face in the summer, keeps my bald patch warm in the winter and doubles as the hounds drinking bowl when we are out.

[237SJ]

Fashion - I remember wearing my Starsky cardigan in the middle of a hot June.

[mikey4444]

LOL Ratter !