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nineveh_uk) wrote2015-02-14 07:02 pm
nineveh_uk) wrote2015-02-14 07:02 pm
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Headgear
One of the many things I am enjoying about the BBC’s current adaptation of Wolf Hall is the proliferation of hats, caps, and headdresses for women, men, and children*. Finally! A costume drama in which people are not all waltzing around with their hair loose over the place.
I am particularly in mind of this today because I had my hair cut this morning, and as a rather cold-blooded person find myself as a result more than usually chilly despite the cashmere jumper, wool cardigan, and central heating**. So in the course of bemoaning that in days of yore I could have put a cap on, I realised that there was nothing actually stopping me tying a silk scarf round my head. So I did. I look as if I were promoting industrialization in the former USSR, but at least I am a bit warmer. Sadly, I don’t think that this is an option at work unless I want to look as if I have joined a religious cult. It is tragic in that frankly I look rather good in a cap/scarf/wimple and have no chance to wear one in public, whereas I do not look great in hats. I can put hope that 2016 brings a sudden fashion craze.
*One notes that Benjamin Hill’s wonderful Duke of Norfolk, a man who would undoubtedly consider himself none of the above, is bare-headed a good deal more than the average.
**The latter would be more effective if there weren’t a giant hole in the sitting room ceiling caused by the stairs running up there. If I owned the place I would glaze the stairwell within the first week. I would also put a better radiator in the kitchen.
I am particularly in mind of this today because I had my hair cut this morning, and as a rather cold-blooded person find myself as a result more than usually chilly despite the cashmere jumper, wool cardigan, and central heating**. So in the course of bemoaning that in days of yore I could have put a cap on, I realised that there was nothing actually stopping me tying a silk scarf round my head. So I did. I look as if I were promoting industrialization in the former USSR, but at least I am a bit warmer. Sadly, I don’t think that this is an option at work unless I want to look as if I have joined a religious cult. It is tragic in that frankly I look rather good in a cap/scarf/wimple and have no chance to wear one in public, whereas I do not look great in hats. I can put hope that 2016 brings a sudden fashion craze.
*One notes that Benjamin Hill’s wonderful Duke of Norfolk, a man who would undoubtedly consider himself none of the above, is bare-headed a good deal more than the average.
**The latter would be more effective if there weren’t a giant hole in the sitting room ceiling caused by the stairs running up there. If I owned the place I would glaze the stairwell within the first week. I would also put a better radiator in the kitchen.
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I have been wearing the tam-o-shanter I knitted for Daughter before she decided secondary school wasn't the place for it but it doesn't suit me and I have agonies working out what the top floppy bit is supposed to do. I like hats with brims but they do not fulfil the necessary function of keeping your ears warm. In Scandinavia I wore shawls - loose over head, warm round neck and crossed over chest under coat for extra body warmth - but I agree they have too much little old lady/religious cult/posh horsey person about them for 21st century rural England.
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:-))
Round here there is a sort of yummy mummy hunter wellies, waxed jacket and peaked cap thing going on but I do not want to be that either.
I am also slightly insulted that Small Daughter seized on my summer straw hat as the perfect thing for Dress Up As A Scarecrow day.
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I watched The Shadow of the Tower--Henry VII's mum wore the cuckoo clock hat. Henry usually wore what I think of as a toque--like Queen Mary in the early 20th century. But I recently learned that Canadian tuques, far from being toques, are actually Jayne Hats.
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Do the men have historically accurate haircuts? Because as nice as it would be to see, there's no way to make the late-Plantagenet/early Tudor pageboy bob for middle-aged men look good.
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(And as an aside: fourty years ago, I was taught to spell it as "tooque". No idea why.)
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But I had seen how men take their hats off - and, indeed, whether they take them off at all - as an indication of the degree of respect they are showing.
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Don't you think that you could carry off a beret at work? I've seen women wear them as part of their outfits rather than as warm outdoor wear.
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It strikes me that Queen Mary must have few other memorable features, given that what everyone remembers her for is her hat.
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Fascinator-ing Rhythm, Stop Pickin' On Me!
There's a Kinks song called "She Wore a Hat Like Princess Marina."
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Robertson Davies says "tuque," so I follow him.
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I got the first three Wolf Hall episodes before I came back and enjoyed them very much. I found the ebook in a folder I got from a friend, I may reread.
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