What is the "Fifty" when it comes to turbans?

[Guest 123]

Haven't fifties been banned?

[jkvlondon]

2 hours ago, Guest 123 said:

Haven't fifties been banned?

you'll always find some starch toting lazy topi turban sikh  somewhere using them ....sigh

[VSinghz7]

Its called a “fifty” becuase when Singhs were fighting in the British army, they would recieve an 8 metre pagg, with a cour four base, because the base layer was half (50%) of the main turban, it’s called a fifty.

The practise of tying a keski under your main one is now seen as pretty weird (except for a patka), but the small coloured strip inder the pagg is still used as a fashion statement since its pretty visually appealing. And so, people now just tie a small little “kung-fu strip” sort of thing under their pagg to imitate that effect.