Knee-long tassets were often worn with a bellows-visored sallet. In 2012, he won the Poke Sallet Idol competition at the annual Poke Sallet festival. The sallet was the forerunner of the modern combat helmet and firefighter's helmet. The helmet, a so-called sallet, was probably made in Flanders or southern Germany. It was the successor of the sallet. In English, the word first appears as "salad" or "sallet" in the 14th century. Unlike the sallet, the barbute seems to have enjoyed little popularity outside Italy. Her half-brother, Friedrich von Sallet, was a poet, an intense liberal in his political views.