Time for a headcovering thread!

[Josh]

Wife: I can't direct you to a record (it may be in one of the books at the Hopewell OR library), but I believe I either read or had a bishop tell me that the Protestants switched from a veil to a capp/bonnet after their split from the Catholics to differentiate themselves from the Catholics. That's why a few people at least justify it. I'm pretty sure some book I read said that Amish used to wear this weird sunhat/droopy sombrero type style and were resistant to changing at one point. No actual reference since I don't remember the book, but maybe someone with resources can look into it.

That is some seriously revisionist history. Here is what Catholic women would have looked like circa 1600 in the Netherlands:



That is most definitely a kapp style.

[steve-in-kville]

You just buy them from the local fabric store.

A few staunch traditionalists (or young people who like “vintage” things) insist on making their own.

Not everyone can walk in a store and buy a cap. Oregon certainly didn’t have that option nor did several other states.
If no one knows how to make it, the practice will eventually die.

My wife gets hers from here:

https://www.garlandsofgrace.com/

[Soloist]

You just buy them from the local fabric store.

A few staunch traditionalists (or young people who like “vintage” things) insist on making their own.

Not everyone can walk in a store and buy a cap. Oregon certainly didn’t have that option nor did several other states.
If no one knows how to make it, the practice will eventually die.

My wife gets hers from here:

https://www.garlandsofgrace.com/

I was only referring to caps. Outside of caps, the veils or other styles are relatively easy to come by.

Josh I’ve seen other styles painted of Dutch Catholics at that time, I don’t know that there was a universal style they wore. Fairly clearly the early church wore flowing coverings and from what I understood the Catholics did for quite a long time.
Max do you have any insight into Catholic covering styles in the reformation era?

Either way, revisionist history or not, all of the living Anabaptists I’m aware of do not use the same covering styles that the women of Menno Simons age likely used.
(There is some speculation here, not facts)

[steve-in-kville]

Does anyone know the reasoning/tradition behind the practice of Horning women changing their covering strings to black if their husband is in the lot and/or ordained?