Do you cover your head for religious reasons? (tradition, funerals)

[MidnightBlue]

Originally Posted by Booko

Mine either. But then, my grandmother wouldn't have dreamed of leaving the house without a hat either. I wasn't done.

Even in the 50s and early 60s many women wore hats as a rule. Ah, those little pill box hats. Oh, and gloves.

I can see my grandmother in her pillbox hat and gloves -- though she sometimes wore something more ornate than a pillbox. And I was fascinated by the hatpins. My mother didn't have anything like that, and I thought it was rather daring of Grandma to shove such large, sharp pins so close to her scalp.

My grandmother also chain-smoked at home, but I never saw her smoke outside her own house, because "a lady doesn't smoke in public."

[YmirGF]

Originally Posted by Booko

Sometimes I think we forget that here in the West we once had a version of modesty in dress also, and it would've passed muster in a lot of Muslim countries.

Fortunately we got over it though.