Who were the first people to start wearing bandannas?
A bandanna can mean several things. Working men in the West would wear a sort of scarf around the neck to help soak up the sweat. You see this in Western movies. A bandanna on the head is seen in pirate movies. This would be to protect the head from the sun, especially in the Tropics. I expect people have been doing so for hundreds of years, or even longer. A thousand years ago, knights would wear a “bandanna” over their helmets. It was called the “mantling,” and held on by the “torse,” which would be in the livery colours. It was used to keep the sun’s rays off the metal, especially off the helmet. We still see this in pictures of armorial achievements (coats of arms).
