• Axiochus@lemmy.world
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          10 months ago

          Yup. The idea is that it protects your head from overheating. You wear it so that there is a pocket of air between your head and the hat, so it’s basically insulation.

          • Randelung@lemmy.world
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            10 months ago

            And it works! I won one at a local sauna marathon a few weeks back and you feel the difference when you take it off.

        • mayidar@lemmy.world
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          10 months ago

          Actually, many people (or even majority) don’t wear it nowadays. It’s a protection against heat stroke, and if one doesn’t visit a steam room one will be fine, though it’s optionally even in a steam room, e.g. I never wore it.

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            10 months ago

            Protecting against heat stroke potentially sounds like a good idea, but I also feel that preventing that may open you up to less obvious issues caused by being too hot for too long.

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      10 months ago

      An ice cream cone? To comedically place it between your privates and the camera?