[Regia-NA] broad-brimmed hats?

[Yolli]

I'm prepared to eat my hat- depending upon the flavour. 

Going a little further back to the Iron Age let's say. There aren't any
examples of ladies using headwear (other than the Sprang hairnet), so I
suppose one could argue that covering your head whilst being busy over the
cauldron didn't seem to bother them too much. 

I guess it comes down to trying to live the life for a while and see what
arises - minus the shower...

Anyhow - still short of hats for 'our' period. Anyone for Medieval??

Cheers, Roll.

-----Original Message-----
From: list-regia-na-bounces at lig.net [mailto:list-regia-na-bounces at lig.net]
On Behalf Of Douglas Sunlin
Sent: 17 May 2006 16:08
To: list-regia-na at lig.net
Subject: RE: [Regia-NA] broad-brimmed hats?


>The adoption of headgear for ladies is largely to my mind to do with 
>reasons
>of practicality. It doesn't take too long before all that fire smoke etc
>necessitates some sort of protection from all the fire smoke and soot. Men
>after all were able to swan about outdoors most of the day. Even the smith
>was able to use charcoal as opposed to wood to work over.
>
>Cheers, Roll.

With all due respect, Roland, it could easily be argued the other way. Going

outdors usually requires hats more often than going indoors, and I do 
believe that men were allowed indoors sometimes if they asked nice. ;)
Osweald

 

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