While looking for the pictures I also found the following:
Historical Use of Women's Scarves
A scarf is widely worn by a woman from all parts of the world whether related to a certain religion or as part of a fashion garment. A scarf is a piece of cloth that is used as protection or as fashion or as a religious veil. The scarf is different in name and in description depending on the religion. It symbolizes sanctity, character and modesty. Both men and women alike wear scarves either as turbans or veils as part of the religious attire. The Muslims, for instance, wear a head scarf specifically by the women and known also as hijab. This hijab serves as a curtain that enables the women to her privacy. The Catholics wear veils to cover the heads and symbolizes holiness. In Tibet, the scarves serve as a protective accessory and were used by the pilots so as to avoid in breathing the exhaust fumes. ----- Entertainment came into the picture when scarves were included in the glamour and spotlight of showbiz. It is when the likes of Greta Garbo and Grace Kelley wore scarves in a stylish way and was shown on the different movies. These scarves in fashion were made from different fabrics like cotton, silk, wool, rayon and even the synthetic nylons scarves are put around the neck and head as it is very light.
A scarf is widely worn by a woman from all parts of the world whether related to a certain religion or as part of a fashion garment. A scarf is a piece of cloth that is used as protection or as fashion or as a religious veil.
The scarf is different in name and in description depending on the religion. It symbolizes sanctity, character and modesty. Both men and women alike wear scarves either as turbans or veils as part of the religious attire. The Muslims, for instance, wear a head scarf specifically by the women and known also as hijab. This hijab serves as a curtain that enables the women to her privacy. The Catholics wear veils to cover the heads and symbolizes holiness. In Tibet, the scarves serve as a protective accessory and were used by the pilots so as to avoid in breathing the exhaust fumes.
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Entertainment came into the picture when scarves were included in the glamour and spotlight of showbiz. It is when the likes of Greta Garbo and Grace Kelley wore scarves in a stylish way and was shown on the different movies. These scarves in fashion were made from different fabrics like cotton, silk, wool, rayon and even the synthetic nylons scarves are put around the neck and head as it is very light.
Maybe as I still have some of those scarves, I should wear one for the ET-Meetup? :-) Paris is often windy enough to make it comfortable to wear.
Italian and French style were also v v fashionable in 50s which is where the rest of the western world caught the idea.
But in the 60s theCalifornian beach style of free hair became the icon and scarves were dispensed with except in rich high fashion circles of Jackie Onassis etc.
But hiding the hair, in any society, is a form of control that is imposed within a patriarchal tradition, even if it is the women who end up policing conformity. And guess what ? I'm agin it. keep to the Fen Causeway
Tha's bahn' to catch thy deeath o` cowd Then we shall ha' to bury thee Then t'worms'll come an` eyt thee up keep to the Fen Causeway
It is interesting that there is rarely any talk about the women of conservative jews covering their hair. I had my office in near the synagoge and I was always wondering why so many of the jewish women were wearing wigs. Until somebody told me that they were not allowed to go outside with there head uncovered.
I have always suspected the fashion scarf evolved out of the piety scarf.
you are the media you consume.
Of those wearing the scarf, none show any skin beyond face and hands, which makes sense to me, as the concept at least on the surface seems be be whittled down to conservative muslims. About half wear full length coats, of those about half appear fashionable, the other half (more common among older women) wear drab gray wool Soviet-Russia looking coats. The other half wear long skirts with long baggy tops. I've seen a statistically insignificant number of women with the Saudi style get up (which still does and always will creep me out).
In Malaysia, the Malay women pay lip service to the whole idea - underneath they wear black, skin-tight full length tights and shirts, and over that wear what they would wear otherwise, usually short skirts and tops with very short sleeves.
And the biblical injunction on which this was based?
St Paul, 1 Corinthians, King James version
3: But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God. 4: Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head. 5: But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven. 6: For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered. 7: For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. 8: For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. 9: Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.... 13: Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered? 14: Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him? 15: But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.
And what was this a fashionable fossil form of?
It's more likely Paul is reflecting pre-existing eastern Mediterranean mores. A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds; a man of deeds and not of words is like a garden full of turds — Anonymous
I didn't know patriarchal societies cast women in that role. I thought they were just made that way. I thought everyone knew that.
back then I thought women were weaker, less intelligent, less practical, and more emotional than men.
Ha !! You obviously never met my mother. keep to the Fen Causeway
Dress is a form of self-expression, and I am all about freedom of expression. Even when I don't agree with what is being expressed. You know, what Voltaire might have said, but didn't actually say... "Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.
