If you are my age or older, you may have ridden with a "leather hairnet." Similar to the headgear worn by US football players until the 1950s, they were a lattice of foam-filled straps that might have prevented a scrape or two in a minor crash but probably were useless in a headlong fall or impact with a motor vehicle.
I had one such helmet in my youth. (Yes, believe it or not, I had one of those.) But I never wore it because it was too cumbersome and hot. I had those same complaints when I first started wearing a hardhat-- a later-version Bell "turtle shell" nearly four decades ago--but have covered my head while riding ever since.
My "hairnet" disappeared into the mists of history. Actually, I think I lost it during a move. I got to thinking about it when I came across this:
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