Pith helmets The first head protection concept introduced to the biking world was a hat made from pith , which is the spongy ...

Pith helmet craftsmen would press the pith into sheets and laminate it across dome-shaped molds to form a helmet shape. Then, ...

Pith helmet craftsmen would press the pith into sheets and laminate it across dome-shaped molds to form a helmet shape. Then, they’d cover the hats in canvas as a form of weatherproofing.

Pith helmet craftsmen would press the pith into sheets and laminate it across dome-shaped molds to form a helmet shape. Then, they’d cover the hats in canvas as a form of weatherproofing.

The pith helmet was never exclusively the domain of would-be explorers and white people with romantic ideas about the so-called dark continent. North Vietnamese soldiers wore olive green pith ...

In fact, during the 19th century, pith helmets were worn by colonial officials, soldiers, explorers and missionaries so frequently that they “came to visually epitomize the 19th-century age of ...

While pith helmets are still available for purchase online and in hat shops, they have come to symbolize white colonialist rule over the years, and, according to The Guardian, ...

The pith helmet was frequently worn by European travellers and explorers visiting areas such as Africa, southeast Asia and the tropics in the late 19th Century.

Even before the pith helmet, Seay had started a hashtag — #FLOTUSInAfricaBingo — to note the ways in which she found that Trump was "fulfilling a lot of stereotypes" on her trip.

Pith helmet craftsmen would press the pith into sheets and laminate it across dome-shaped molds to form a helmet shape. Then, they'd cover the hats in canvas as a form of weatherproofing.

Imagine -- it's the mid-1800s, and you're riding your high-wheeled, penny-farthing bicycle down a dusty road. Sure, it may have some bumps, but if you lose your balance, you're landing on a relatively ...