This hood turns your Belgian shelter half into a rain poncho. After lots of deliberation and hard work, we were able to find some more of these relics and put them up for sale for your pleasure. We don't know if we can pull it off again, so act fast.

As with the shelter halves, these are made with buttons or snap fasteners and the variants are not cross-compatible. Choose wisely! The button-up version has an additional benefit of being more flexible in use; take your favourite hoodless jacket, sew on a couple of buttons on the collar and attach the hood. How about that!

History

To give the other NATO countries the finger, probably, the Belgians made their shelter half rectangular, as did most Eastern Bloc countries during the Cold War.

In order to avoid total communism, they discarded the drawstring system of wearing the sheet as a rain poncho and made an opening for the head roughly in the center - as is common in Western countries - but made it diagonal. Sigh.

To confuse the enemy and friendly forces even more, they made the hood a separate item that doubles as a carrying pouch for the shelter half. It also has a distinct feature of disappearing easily.

Condition

Belgian Army surplus. The colors vary and the fabric has a Belgian smell to it. Other than that, the condition shouldn't raise complaints. This is hardly a surprise: it's not like you're supposed to drag a hood over rough grounds no matter how demanding the scenario is.