If you don’t know already sometimes sporting that loud colored bandanna screams idoit.

However wearing a bandanna doesn’t always qualify you for douchebag status, but there are right and wrong times to wear one.  The correct time might be when you’re attempting to dress like Bret Micheals or if are Bret Micheals, and the wrong time might be if you are not Mr. Micheals.

Bret Micheals Side Note: Is the bandanna to blame for the brain hemorrhage? (too soon?)

We’ve borrowed (http://www.thebandanarules.com/), then aggressively edited and updated (copy and pasted), the following list of when it’s the right time to pull out your paisley handkerchief and tie it around your melon.

Rules of Bandanaism

1. To be immediately considered for approval to wear a bandanna you must be one or more of the following:
   1. A pirate (either real, or dress up)
   2. A motorcycle gang member or you own a motorcycle and have killed a man
   3. A woman (woman have no rules of fashion)
   4. A child under the age of 8
   5. A cancer patient
   6. A person not of Caucasian descent
   7. An actual cowboy
   8. A train conductor
   9. A homosexual
   10. A tattoo artist
   11. A construction worker who deals with heavy objects OR
   12. If one of the exceptions described in Sec. II is applicable to you
2. Exceptions will be made if you can answer “yes” to one or more of the following:
   1. If you are in a life threatening situation
   2. If you have ever cut off one of your own limbs to survive
   3. If you have a scar across one or more eyes
   4. If you have won the strongest man competition
   5. If you have won the iron man competition
   6. If you have wrestled an adult:
      1. bear (Panda and Koala not included)
      2. alligator
      3. crocodile
      4. shark (over 5ft)
      5. tiger
      6. wolf
      7. wolverine
      8. lion
      9. leopard
   7. If you have been raised by wolves
   8. If you have been in more than one sword fights and have been wounded
   9. If you have walked on the moon
   10. If you have thrown a man though a window at a bar or saloon
   11. If you have won an Olympic medal (specific events under investigation)
   12. If you work in heat in excess of 100 degrees and it is used to keep sweat out of your eyes
   13. If you wear it on your face because you are a crazy radical or a vigilante
   14. If you’re a Bandanna salesperson
3. If you are approved from Sec. I or II you can skip this section and go on to wearing your bandanna. If not, and you are still planning on wearing a bandanna you must follow the items below:
   1. No manicured facial hair
   2. No wife beater shirts
   3. No “designer” sunglasses
   4. No jewelry except rings
   5. You cannot be in a fraternity
   6. Collar cannot be “popped”
   7. No sandals
   8. You cannot be in a boy band
   9. No shorts
   10. You cannot tan or have a consistent tan
   11. You cannot coordinate it with your outfit
   12. You cannot coordinate it with your pet’s bandanna
   13. You cannot wear the color pink
   14. You cannot wear it underneath a hat
   15. You cannot wear it on your arm
   16. You cannot wear it while engaged in any activity that does not involve sweat unless stated in Sec. II

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