Headscarves

I remember those oldbatty.
It always seemed odd to cover your rollers with a transparent chiffon headscarf

Do you remember pin curls?

I remember my maternal Grandmother putting my hair in “rags” to go to bed (I am the only family member with straight hair)

My mum in her younger days wore a head scarf (Grace Kelly style)
My maternal grandmother always wore a hat (fur in the winter).
Both stylish ladies.
unlike moi

There are a good many pictures of the Queen in a headscarf, but she is of that generation. We should be told if she wears one over her curlers. I never took to wearing one even in the early 60s when they were quite popular because it made me look like a clootie dumpling. One of my housemates insisted in wearing a white one with big sun glasses. It made her look like Christine Keeler.

Do you remember how we use to cross ove4 the ends and tie them at the back in the 60 s I think it was Tuesday Weld I first saw wearing them like that

I saw a very pretty young woman on the bus the other day..
She had curlers in her hair, with a headscarf on, and beautiful false eyelashes.
She looked like a film star.

My mother thought they were common inspite of the queen often wearing one.
I also had my hair done in rags by my gran and had lovely ringlets which hardly lasted a day.

I remember my mother wearing them, I also remember them being taken under the chin and then tied round the back of the neck, if that makes sense Or kerchief type scarves that were tied round the back. They could look quite chic in the 60s. When I went to church (catholic) females were expected to cover their heads, so there was often sea of scarves, and a few hats and then mantillas started to appear, but head covering has all gone out the window now.

It always seemed odd to cover your rollers with a transparent chiffon headscarf
I don't think the chiffon scarf was meant to conceal them, more to keep them in place without making the wearer unduly warm.

My mum had a similar collection oldbatty... and then of course there were the “rainmates”!

I have a chiffon-type scarf, a long one, not square, to stop my hair blowing about when the roof is down on dh's car.

I like to think I look like Princess Grace, tooling along in a sports car, but I fear I'm more like Norah Batty or Hilda Ogden.

I was told I had a big baw face and for goodness sake not to wear a headscarf !

I remember rags too - painful! My mum also wore a red check scarf in the style of a land girl, knotted at the front of her head.

My mum wore a head scarf nearly every day in '50s and '60s. Especially when riding her push bike to work. She then started wearing hats whenever she went out but only in the winter.

I could never get the hang of tying the knot at the back of the neck....made me look like a Russian peasant.

Hats ! Very few went out without them. A " posh " alternative to the headscarf. The hat used to remain perched on mum's head even when preparing meals if we'd been out, but the headscarf was whipped off smartish as it flattened the perm hahahaha.
Dad was never without his trilby.

I had a selection I remember. I wore them a lot when I was living at home to cover my greasy locks as my DM would only allow me to wash my hair once a week! I now have even more long ones.

I remember my DM wearing an old one tied 40’s fashion with the knot at the top and the front when she ‘did’ a chicken as she said it kept the smell out of her hair. Chicken innards do stink!

Didn’t the queen wear one too?

I suffered the agonies of rags as well! I've got a large bag of scarves my mum left, no idea what to do with them, chiffon, silk etc.
I recently had to show some girls how to tie scarves in turbans when they were meant to be factory workers. They'd never seen one.

I wish they would come back into fashion as they are ever so useful when your hair is a mess or the weather is damp or windy. I've still got a couple from years ago

I think the chiffon scarf over the curlers was to allow wet hair to dry. There was nothing worse than uncurling long hair, only to find the innermost bit was still wet.

I was looking for a silk square headscarf in town last week and they don't exist! Only long ones.
I used to have some pretty ones from my Mum, who wore them around her neck (she said she had a scrawny neck). But I got rid of them when we moved. [sad}

I've been looking as well Fennel. My mum is of the opinion, they are good enough for the Queen, they are good enough for her if it's very wet or windy.
Does anyone know where you can find them (not chiffon, she needs something a bit warmer)
Personally,I think she looks like she's about to tell someone's fortune when she's got it on