Possible Clues:

• Factory worker inside needs a form of head cover
• Chap at helm, say, has head cover
• That's masculine until a feminine one that goes on ahead
• Spanish lace shawl
• Woman''s lace veil
• He sounds like the sort of farmer that goes on ahead of her
• Sounds as if he, a farmer, got it over the head of his wife
• Spanish head scarf
• A farmer, by the sound of it, has gone on ahead of her
• Crew heading to a cape