Everything about Snood Headgear totally explained
A
snood is a type of
headgear, worn by women over their long
hair. In the most common modern form it resembles a close-fitting
hood worn over the back of the head. The band covers the forehead or crown of the head, goes behind the ears and under the nape of the neck. A sack of sorts dangles from this band, covering and containing the fall of long hair gathered at the back of the head. A snood is sometimes made of solid cloth, but sometimes of loosely
knitted
yarn, or other net-like material.
The word is first recorded in
Old English from around 725 and was widely used in the Middle Ages for a variety of cloth or net head coverings, including what we'd today call
hairbands and
cauls, as well as versions similar to a modern net snood. Snoods continued in use in later periods especially for women working or at home.
In
Scotland and parts of the North of
England a silken ribbon about an inch wide called a snood was worn specifically by unmarried women as an indicator of their status until the late 19th or early 20th century . It was usually braided into the hair.
Snoods came back into
fashion in the 1860s, though the term "snood" remained a European name, and Americans called the item simply a "hairnet" until some time after they went out of fashion in the 1870s. They became popular again in
Europe during
World War II. At that time, the British government had placed strict
rations on the amount of material that could be used in clothing. While headgear wasn't rationed, snoods were favored, along with
turbans and headscarves, in order to show one's commitment to the war effort.
In the 1980s,
Nik Kershaw was partly responsible for making the snood fashionable yet again.
Today snoods are also commonly worn by married
Orthodox Jewish women, according to the religious custom of
hair covering.
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