[Sca-cooks] hats, andperiod spectacles

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> >
> >Not only that-- but while wearing hats is period for most people in most
> >time periods, there are certainly times and places and people during our
> >period who would be wearing hats only when the weather required it.
>
> Could you give some examples? From  what I have seen that would be by far
> the exception.

In a number of cultures, incluidng Renaissance Italy and Saxon England,
unmarried women generally wore their hair uncovered. They might have
elaborate hairdressing styles, but they didn't always put a covering over
it. In  some cases, unmarried women would wear a covering (Gothic Germany)
but let their hair hang down under it.

Men are also pictured hatless in some situations.

-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa   jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
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