Balaclavas: Classic or Dud?

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Illegal in public (or is that an urban legend?)

Associated with the SAS and the IRA.

Keep your face warm!

Functional and intimidating!

What say you?

http://www.thermalshop.co.uk/images/balaclava-4.jpg

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:01 (twenty years ago)

Wouldn't your brow get cold?

You'd be warmer in a burqua.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:03 (twenty years ago)

They're not all that big in the eye area. Mine is the warmest thing in town. And people fear you!

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:06 (twenty years ago)

Essential wear for bank robbing.

― C J (C J), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:08 (twenty years ago)

I'd wear one with two eye-holes.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:30 (twenty years ago)

Excellent choice, Rumpie!

http://www.strikeforcesupplies.co.uk/stockpics/5013.jpg

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:38 (twenty years ago)

Dud for having frightened by accident a very good friend's mum wearing one! She wouldn't let him talk to me again. I still regret it. If only he had answered the door, life might have been very different or at least have involved more substance abuse...

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:38 (twenty years ago)

Roxy, I thought of making a pink one with bunny ears.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:39 (twenty years ago)

YEah, I've been thinking about knitting some, actually.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:49 (twenty years ago)

Do you have a pattern?

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:49 (twenty years ago)

I'd like to be your first customer!

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:50 (twenty years ago)

Can you make one with two eye holes for Rumpie?

This guy's is cool:

http://www.jpstudio.com.au/dbsml/pink_balaclava_sml.jpg

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:52 (twenty years ago)

Famous balaclavas:

the IRA

http://www.wdghunt.demon.co.uk/pics/IRA_man_with_HMG.jpg

James Dean Bradfield

http://www.jade.dti.ne.jp/~michio-k/navi/Piyo_HTML/manics/pics/band09.jpg

Pippi Longstocking

http://www.margaret-marks.com/Transblawg/archives/pippi1.jpg

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Thursday, 26 January 2006 14:59 (twenty years ago)

I really hate when people have one with a mouth hole like that one Bradfield is sporting up there^. It makes your mouth look like some kind of prepubescent sideways vulva.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Thursday, 26 January 2006 15:00 (twenty years ago)

remember on brookside those scousers said ballies when they were doing "a job" i.e robbery

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 26 January 2006 15:01 (twenty years ago)

"ballies!" cuet.

This one looks really warm, possibly a bit much though (and looks less than intimidating):

http://www.nunatakusa.com/images/garments/hoods%20+%20balaclava/balaclava-main.jpg

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Thursday, 26 January 2006 15:03 (twenty years ago)

Some of those are absolutely classic!

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Thursday, 26 January 2006 15:12 (twenty years ago)

http://www.anticon.biz/onlinestore/images/3.jpg

― John Cocktolstoy (John Cocktolstoy), Thursday, 26 January 2006 15:47 (twenty years ago)

http://www.britishbattles.com/crimean-war/balaclava/balaclava.jpg

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Friday, 27 January 2006 08:54 (twenty years ago)

TISM!

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2004/07/01/tism.jpg

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 27 January 2006 09:02 (twenty years ago)

I live in a suburb called Balaclava also, so therefore balaclava = cool.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 27 January 2006 09:03 (twenty years ago)

CLASSIC!

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Friday, 27 January 2006 15:39 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

Balaclavas are classic! I like the hand knitted ones with one hole that can cover the face except or the eyes and can be stretched to expose the face when talking to someone.

Wear mine six months a year usually with a matching sweater and mitts. Prefer thick brushed wool. Always get favourable comments particularly from women. Never found wearing them intimidating to others.

Skimasks (three hole) on the other hand are intimidating. Wear these in the country rather than the city.

Hope to see more people wearing them.

― All Wool Gear (Wooly), Friday, 12 May 2006 12:09 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

I now own three.

balas 4 life

― roxymuzak, Thursday, 6 September 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

The problem with these is: if you're actually trying to protect your face from getting cold, covering the nose doesn't really work out. Your steamy breath stays in the cloth and the moisture just attacts the cold. That's why I just wrap scarves all over my head (knitted neck scarves, haha) and get called Babushka by passing strangers.

― Abbott, Thursday, 6 September 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

It's really good for cold WIND, though. I.E., if you are a biker.

― roxymuzak, Thursday, 6 September 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

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