The one thing that bothers me about those caps .....
around here everybody wears them with the strings just hanging loose. IMO, looks pretty stupid -- what's the point of having strings if you're not going to use them! And they are ridiculously long
Of course, everybody says (you know, *those* people) that the Viking women didn't wear the "long traditional" triangular kerchief (like we assumed because there aren't any of those in ht archaeological finds, but there are these caps.
And it occurred to me one day, that if you took those strings and tied them around at the nape of the ck under the hair ..... you get what looks like the kerchief, but it's one of those caps.
Somewhere -- I think it was Mistress Thora's set of pages -- there was a discussion about headwear in the context of Norse Pagan versus Christian women.
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Date: 2011-07-08 02:22 pm (UTC)around here everybody wears them with the strings just hanging loose. IMO, looks pretty stupid -- what's the point of having strings if you're not going to use them! And they are ridiculously long
Of course, everybody says (you know, *those* people) that the Viking women didn't wear the "long traditional" triangular kerchief (like we assumed because there aren't any of those in ht archaeological finds, but there are these caps.
And it occurred to me one day, that if you took those strings and tied them around at the nape of the ck under the hair ..... you get what looks like the kerchief, but it's one of those caps.
Somewhere -- I think it was Mistress Thora's set of pages -- there was a discussion about headwear in the context of Norse Pagan versus Christian women.