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I just had an event where I unexpectedly stood retinue for Heirs visiting from another kingdom. Spent much of the day in the sun and I am a pale-skinned person! My linen veil kept the sun from my head and out of my eyes, soaked the sweat from my brow, and protected my neck from getting burnt. My long sleeved tunic kept me from getting burnt and actually helped keep me from overheating.
A lot of modern westerners forget that the sun touching one's skin will be hotter than the sun touching fabric that prevents the rays of the sun from touching one's skin! Especially when wearing layers where the base layer is linen!
Thank you for taking the time to leave such a lovely compliment! Not everyone appreciates my particular brand of acerbic wit. In fact, this video and my series on medieval women's underpants are two of my most controversial videos, as per the comments. 😅
Oh, and the collar - It is a replica by Armour and Castings of an original worn by Maria Portinari as depicted in several different portraits of her. Their work is amazing! You will see several of their pieces in the video I am about to release on getting dressed Burgundian-style from the skin out.
"But if I had to, I'd sun blind myself first" is such a mood! I wore boys school shorts rather than a skirt which wasn't allowed so I got dress coded. My gran and I said F that, and we made a sort of divided skirt situation with a lot of gathering and I wore that instead. Was fine for months, then someone saw it was actually shorts and dress coded me again forcing me to wear the school issue skirt (which I hated for sensory reasons and lack of comfort in a wheelchair.) Then to add insult to injury I got dress coded for it being too short because when you sit down knee length skirts ride up. And I was in a wheelchair much of the time. To get one knee length sat down from the school supplier it would have been 4 sizes too big. So I wore calf length skirts and when they tried to dress code me I bloody lost it and they called my Mum, who also went ballistic because they dress coded me essentially just because I used a wheelchair. I got an exemption pass after that. It didn't actually matter what I wore. Nothing was good enough. Even the regulation issue skirt got me coded. Boys very rarely got coded even if they were obviously breaking code, it was ALWAYS the girls 🙄
Yeah, I am a bit feisty! Thank you for sharing your story. Several people have accused this video of misandry, completely ignoring the very real question of misogyny and the way the women are often more restricted than men that I am actually addressing. One that obviously continues to this day in many places.
@@thecreativecontessa absolutely. People who equate stating a fact of our lived experience/the experiences of people in the past with missandry when speaking out against misogyny really grind my gears. It's very frustrating 💕
@@zoes_story It is also truly sad that some of the greatest misogynists are women...There is a comment below this video complimenting the depth of information while also accusing me of misandry, and I am sad to see how many people have given it a thumbs up!
My husband and son are redheads and I sunburn nearly as easily as they do-about 10 minutes without protection. Hats and headcoverings are a necessity for all of us even here in An Tir (western Washington State). I have made linen hoods for the express purpose of wetting them down in hot weather. I have also found out that a redhead can sunburn through a single layer of light colored linen. I like veils an hoods because they keep the back of my neck from sunburn. Hats and hoods can hid a bad hair day too. Having come home from an event with hair smelling like a campfire, I can see coifs protecting from smoke and grunge. I can also see where headcoverings would protect the hair itself from abrasion and breakage and make for longer, healthier looking hair.
I almost always coordinate my garb with the appropriate headwear, and I find it a must to wear at least a simple white cap when I'm camping at a summer camping event like Lilies War. I can soak it in water to help keep me cool, and the white reflects back a lot of heat that my dark hair would just absorb!
I have covered my head since my first event. With various materials and varying degrees of success. 😁 Highly recommend linen during the summer! My first veil was white cotton and, while not terrible, it was no comparison to the linen one I was able to purchase.
I went into head covering as a way to help me with my prayer life. i have always had a passion for historical clothing but was ashamed, because I thought i would be judge. Now that I did my DNA n found out that I am German , now I know it is all part of who I am, so i base my style around head coverings. I stand out n am very fashionable in my own style n culture.
What sort of head coverings do you tend to wear on a daily basis? I personally where a variety from broad-brimmed hats, to caps, to scarfs tied fetchingly. Full covering I generally reserved for historical representation, although I do sometimes think wearing the coif is a much easier solution for hair than actually styling it! 😅
@@thecreativecontessa Yes I wear hats in the summer cause I live in Texas, but am intrested in learning as much about German head wrapping as I can, I am looking for a part of my identity that was stolen from me a long time ago.
Re: coronation coifs, this goes along with Confirmation headbands used to catch the oil of chrism (which was a blessed sacramental that you would not want to drip on the floor or waste). A coronation coif would catch the anointing oil, preserve its sweet smell, and allow maximum exposure to holiness if worn for a whole week (as well as keeping the king or queen mindful of their new office and charismatic gifts).
Agreed that this was exactly the purpose. The coronation ceremony was all about rendering tangible the otherwise intangible transition from non-ruler to God-Appointed Ruler, so all of these little aspects were meant to made an indelidble impression for the participants as well as the witnesses. This was also why there was an entire set of undressing/dressing rituals in many coronation ceremonies (when I was crowned Queen of the European SCA kingdom, we incorporated many of the medieval transformation rituals into the ceremony, including the dressing in new ceremonial clothing and annointing with oil mixed with the soil from the four corners of the kingdom).
Nothing worse than taking off your helmet after fighting a little bit, and your hat is nowhere to be found by the time someone comes by to snap a photo, and so they capture the magnificence of your armor and your person, save for that being topped with a less-than-flattering almost bedhead-like sweat-drenched hairdo. Nope, a hat is a must for me. One of my squire’s main jobs is to get me my hat once I take off the helmet.
I've been doing a Children's garb workshop/round table for over 10 years now. One of the first things I put on my handout was to have the babies and toddlers wear coifs. One it protects their heads and two it gets them use to wearing hats. I admit I'm not great at wearing a hat or coif but I've started wearing them more often especially around my house as they help keep my hair out of my face.
I had to go back and check, the thing I was about to write was about an article I read ...it would be more than 10 years ago now about beards being a key identifier for when children had become "men" / adults in the medieval German states. When I went back to your specific question you mention looking for identifiers of "bachelorhood"-- so not entirely the same thing, identity but not marital status/ "availability on the proverbial meat market" x'D My kid's doing a project on... "hats" ... so this was my first stop before trying to help find relevant material before we talk about everybody's favorite skill... notetaking. yaaaay =D Anywhosit. Very informative, quirky-- but humorous.
I own sixty or seventy hats of different styles (but no baseball caps), and never go out bare-headed. I do not, however, own a coif. I need to get one!
I have played in a band for many years now and have made it me thing to whare a different hat every time we play Fedoras, tricorn, war bonnet you name it
I'm a fan of hats. Good ways to keep your head warm and dry in rainy weather, and you have both hands free. Also good for avoiding sunburn on top of your head, an experience I vigorously try to avoid.
Thank yo. I really enjoy the discussion about the soical significance of a covered head vs an uncovered one. I will be the first to admit my hair is my biggest vanity. And when I leave it down at events, it is on purpose. I simply feel prettier with it down. I also hide behind it is a way. When I cover my hair with a veil, or coif, it is for specific goals. Keep the sun off, pad a coronet, look more period apprpriate/put together. I love exploring various ways to braid and cover my hair in the SCA. But I will invariable default to the modern asthetic of leaving it down.
I would feel just partially dressed if I didn't wear my hairnet and veil. So it's interesting to hear that people really dislike covering their heads. The video was fascinating, I've never thought about trying to save your hair from soot! As a "crespinettiere" or a female hairnet maker, I would have loved to seen them too.
There was so much more headgear I wanted to display, but I ran out of video - I am thinking of doing another video at some point with more details and other headpieces. I have so many extant crispinettes in my folder of extant pieces! But, I di include one crispinette in the video, time stamp 6:07, a queen out hunting is wearing a crispinette and veil. :-)
AndL thank you so much for watching and commenting! Great support for my channel, and I love the discussions. I too find it fascinating how some people detest wearing things upon their head. The thing that made me think of saving one's hair from soot was living in countries with major pollution issues - my hair stays much nicer if I keep it in protective braids and covered by a hat than if I expose it to the foul air!
I dislike having bonnets or veils. I prefer to wear straw hats and bandanas to cover my hair. I will wear a bandana to bed in my cold bedroom to keep my head warm. They absorb hair oils well
Been leaving my 19th-20th century comfort zone to learn about all the gorgeous fashions of medieval times…what a treasure trove your channel is! Lots of easy to understand knowledge and great pictures! You deserve to blow up with fame, the historical costuming community needs more people like you! 🩷
Wow, thank you! Your comment really made my day! I fear I may have joined the Historical Costuber community too late for fame (or even a decent income for the amount of effort this all takes), but I'll keep going a little while longer and see what happens! Welcome to my Creative Community, and I look forward to walking this path with you!
I loathe headcoverings as they NEVER seem to stay on my head. I end up messing with them constantly. It's one of the reasons I love 16th century Italian garb!
In fact, we took a quick video up close specifically for that purpose. 😀 The majority of it is cast with pearls and semi-precious stones set throughout. Let me see if I can figure out where we posted that video...
🇨🇦 I enjoyed this talk so much I subscribed! Looking forward to more from you. 😊 Especially loved the rebellious comments! 🤣 that would be sooo me….😂 The only reason I wear hats and cover my head is purely from personal choice & preference. I love wearing hats. Have always loved wearing hats since a young child! And when wearing coif like scarf coverings came back in style in the 1970’s & 1980’s I loved wearing them. Having long hair, it was so easy to tuck everything under a head covering and get on with my day! Never having to worry about if my hair needed washing that day. And you can get quite creative with head coverings & scarves to create quite some stylish looks. Now I am much older and my hair is too thin to do much with. I still have long hair and it’s easy to hide under hair coverings, giving me some stylish looks. I still wear my many hats. The wider the brims the better! Cool in summer and warm in winter! What’s not to love? When I travel, my hat boxes come with me. Always.
Thank you for commenting and complimenting! I actually got accused of misandry in this video due to my rebellious sidebars. Some people enjoy my sense of humor; others not so much! In any case, it is nice to meet a fellow hat person - I am rather fond of wearing headgear from all periods of history (my black sunhat is a signature piece on my Travels With The Contessa channel). If you enjoyed this video, I think you will enjoy my other content as well, in particular the two-parter on medieval women's underwear and my getting dressed in the 15th century video. Again, thank you for your support! :-)
Thanx, these are a lot of interesting (and IMHO for a "normal" person unknown) facts! 👍 - _also_ for the YT algo! 😊 P.S.: I can't stress it enough: I love your sense of humor! 🤣
Very cool, thank you! I love all the little tidbits and details you've included...such a fun rabbit hole/warren to explore! (Also, your cat is adorable.)
I very much dislike wearing a head covering so I chose a persona who doesn't necessarily wear one. I do love when folk finish their outfit with an appropriate topper though. Love your necklace!!
Thank you for sharing! Do you tend to pick fashions that style their hair instead of covering it? And thank you for the compliment - work by Armour and Casting, a Ukrainen jeweler that makes amazing reproductions!
When working on my farm in the summer have been looking for a lightweight coif that I once saw in a video but have never seen again. It had rather long strings to gather the back of it but the strings then tied up around the hair bun - not around the head. I find scarves & wraps that anchor to my hair stay so much better & don’t give the headache & ear rubbing that other types do.
It sounds like you may be talking about St brigittas coiff. It is actually one of the pictures in the video. Let me see if I can find a link and post here. :-)
Convinced, very much, not least because winter is coming and it is going to get nippy, and I find modern caps, for the most part, dreadfully boring. Let there be coifs and hats with all the trimmings 😁 Also, sleeping caps make a lot of sense, especially when camping out for an event.
By the way, I really like wearing my medieval "headgear": My simple wool hat (model type "flat cooking pot") is super comfortable and I can use it for nearly all epochs, my Gugel (hood?) is very warm and protective, my Chaperon is very elegant and stylish! Speaking of Chaperon: In the summer (where most of our medieval events take place) I'm often asked whether it wouldn't be very warm underneath... My answer, pointing to the "hose" (tail) of the Chaperon: "But no, there's an air conditioning system installed!" 😁 Some visitors still believe this... Fun fact (you probably know that): The Chaperon was supposedly “invented” by men who intentionally wore their Gugel the wrong way round: The cut-out for the face was simply put over the head so that the shoulder protection hung down at the back (i.e. the tail).
Thank you for sharing! Indeed, I have found imagery from the late 14th century that shows the transition from wearing the hood "properly" to "chaperon" style. And I conur that the chaperon is indeed a stylish choice of headwear!
I like to wear head coverings. The serve a purpose (heating/cooling and sun protection.) and they make me feel more accurate as a lady never left the house without her hair covered. Im just flummoxed on how one wears them properly. I am learning though.
@@thecreativecontessa honestly. All of them. Wearing a veil pinned to a coif seems to be the answer I see given most of the time. So I am working on making a st Brigit’s cap. I would LOVE to see more head covering videos and maybe tutorials on how to make them?
@@Diniecita what is your target period/region? The method of securing a veil and the type of coif varies sometimes massively from time and place to time and place. :-)
Apparently, that account of Edward II's death is actually believed to be false by most historians. There's even some evidence that he was still alive in the 1330s!
I cover my head on a daily basis as a Muslima (usually with a hijab, ofcourse). That's why I'm very happy women did so in medieval times in Europe too, because it means that I can just wear a wimple and veil with my medieval outfit and both be period correct and covered in the way I choose to myself, religiously speaking. Plus ofcourse, as you say, the added bonus of sun protection.
Thank you for sharing! I also enjoy how much simpler it can be to Simply cover with hair with a coif, Veil, hood, or turban, then to worry about styling my hair in some fashion!
While eminently practical, and sometimes very pretty, I dislike the convention of keeping my hair covered ( I am 57, and married). I kmow it's period, but I hate it, LOL, though I will generally wear a coif or veil.
Love a hat - normally vintage or late Victorian. Just made my first Regency cap which is the earliest time period so far but an Elizabethan project is coming up so I expect more to come. I'm sure medieval will hove into view at some point in the future! First video I've watched of yours - very enjoyable. Will be back!
Thank you for watching, for the compliment and for the great comment! I am such a hat person in general and love an elegant vintage-style or late Victorian hat to accompany even my "modern" wear - nice to meet a fellow hat enthusiast! Historical fashion really is a chain drug for sewists...One period leading to another, to another, to another...If this is your first time on my channel, have you seen any of my 1480s Getting Dressed Series?
Thank you for taking the time to comment! I concur with with you, that film had possibly some of the best attempt at Italian Renaissance clothing I have ever seen on the big screen. I was in Florence two years ago, I dressed up in full Florentine finery with my Florentine matron style veil,, the one in which often scene at balls or outside at events. I passed a group of Tunisian gentleman while walking from the place I was staying into town who found my entire ensemble extremely attractive and let me know in very respectful but definitely very clear terms. So it's very interesting how different people find different addresses to be attractive!
Indeed, I think the hats worn by men in various polities in 15th century Italy are some of the most magnificent headgear in the history of European fashion!
I actually wear a hat when leaving my home. A modified Stetson that survived my "Western Chic" period. A Coif is one of the few things i actually succeeded in making, well i also have one in maille, but i mean a cotton one. In lieu of linnen. As for sleeping with headgear, since the landlord thought it was a great idea to save on central heating, i started to wear a russian style fur cap. I would strike a somewhat curious appearance, as the rest of my sleep gear consists of a drop of Camel N:O 5 under each armpit. Great video, i will most likely watch it many times.
@@thecreativecontessa Absolutely, What was good enough for the Romans and Medieval people is good enough for me. Coming from a Sauna culture helps, of course. When in private, alone, or with a loved one.
@@thomasrehbinder7722 I was actually referring specifically to the fact that your landlord keeps the temperature at Medieval levels, but that's fair as well! :D
@@thecreativecontessa Oh, that. Well, i better get used to it. Hard times are here, and it will get worse. No matter, i can live in a log cabin with packed dirt floor. Our ancestors did. I'm built for it.
Well men wore elaborate hats, hoods and cowls during the middle ages too they also wore caps under some of those hats and when they went to bed. Fur, velvet and silk adorned men's heads, not just women's.
For certain men, like women, covered their heads in increasingly elaborate ways as the centuries wore on; I never stated otherwise! In fact, several of the extant hats that I show throughout the video were most likely worn by men and not women. :-) Was this comment in response to my question about whether there were any headcovering-related indicators of bachelorhood vs. marriage for medieval men as there were in many places for women? In which case, to clarify, that was specifically about headwear as a sign of martital status and not about men wearing hats at all.🙂
I actually started wearing hats and other headpieces in my Modern Life after I started wearing them in my medieval life! I feel very odd now going outside without something upon my pate! 😅
A great video on a variety of headgear. I love my skjoldehamn hood. I can cope with my St. Birgitta's cap and veil when dressed in my 13-1400's garb. I tend to go bareheaded most of the time though as trying to pin down what a 900's AD Norse woman wore on her head is a right pain. If it is really hot, I'll wear my straw hat.
Thank you for the compliment and for sharing! As for 900s AD Norse, there have been some finds, including the hoods from Yorvik (such as the silk one in the video) and another one in Lincoln (both of which I discovered while researching for my coif workshop). Have you seen those?
@@thecreativecontessa Yes, I have seen those. My persona is 900-950ad Gotland Varangian Norse for the most part. This is where I get 'bogged down' so to speak. I can fast forward to the 1400's and find stuff, I can leave the island and find other cultures that have head wraps. What I am not finding is sources showing what Gotlanders wore. I know more about the armor from Wisby than I do headgear from 400 years earlier. sigh...
I have friends in Gotland who do Gotland Norse and also contacts at the Visby museum (As Queen, I held court in the great runestone hall of Visby Museum...Talk about power radiating...). Would you like me to put you in contact with them?
@@thecreativecontessa I would be delighted! Thank you! Part of my family is from Sweden, and according to 'family history', some of them came from Gotland, hence my choice of persona.
I personally don't like wearing headgear. I find them too hot, and it itches after a short time. If I have to wear something, like at an all-day outdoors event, I have a silk hood that I'll wear.
@@thecreativecontessa it seems to be. I run naturally hot, so that might be more of the problem than the fibers itself. The only hat I've ever had that wasn't a problem was a modern safari-style hat with ventilation in the top, and it's not terribly comfortable to wear in general.
Thank you for the comment and compliment! Very pleased you enjoyed - these sorts of essay videos take quite a lot of effort, so it's gratifying to know when the work is worth it.😊
I believe the "illegally occupying churches" thing was about how it became popular for groups of thugs of various levels of legal dealings to use churches as home bases. While there was a bit of that "claiming sanctuary" stuff from criminals holing up after a heist happening, is was way less that and way more that church buildings were considered public property and were therefore open and accessible to everyone at all hours. So people up to no good see this nice, sturdy, free-to-use building as a great place to meet and hang out all the time, and start pushing the actual worshippers and clergy out, either just by being there or with actual force. Declaring this illegal gave communities and clergy grounds to push back and call in guards or forces to remove such people, and to prevent anyone staying too long in the church who shouldn't be there.
@@thecreativecontessa How interesting! I will look that up. This was definitely a case of "hear a new thing one time and then it pops up everywhere". The church occupation thing came up in "Lazarillo de Tormes" and then it immediately came up in your video. And there was an article about senior citizens occupying McDonald's restaurants this morning, too, so it's everywhere! Though I'm guessing the church issue wasn't resolved by turning the air conditioner on full blast and switching the chairs to stools, like the modern McDonald's issues were, but it's always fun to see how humans run into the same problems again and again throughout history.
I love your medieval head covering you have on in this video... Can you please tell me what the name of this type is called and the country or area of Europe where it was worn and about when? If it fits my persona (at least somewhat), I would love to learn to make one for myself. Thank you ☺
Thank you for the question and commenting in general! This is a type of coif that is sometimes referred to as a Flemish coif or a winged coif. It dates to the second half of the 15th century and seems to have been worn by people in England, Burgundy, the Low Countries, France, and Brittany. I do sometimes offer live Zoom workshops on making this style of coif by hand because it makes a good introduction piece for hand sewing and basic tailoring. Those classes can be booked on my website, thecreativecontessa.com :-)
@@thecreativecontessa Thank you my current persona is farther north but it was interesting to check out your website. How cool it is that you consult on movies, etc.
"And truly, one must assume that the young men of that time were so honorable and far from any evildoing that they refrained from carnal delights until the age of 30 (as far as one can believe) and remained pure and uncorrupted, for the clothing they wore permits no other conclusion. They wore their hair as long as it would grow, and made great efforts to keep it beautiful and shiny, but in a way that imitated the cleanliness and neatness of churchmen rather than the vanity and frivolity of women. And this hair, when it was worn with a circlet of velvet or some other material of silk or gold, was a sign of the virginity of the young man who wore it.” said Cesare Vecellio in his 1590 Trachtenbuch. Seems like some evidence the same principle applied to both women and men. Male hairnets show up frequently in German sources.
Thank you for sharing that excerpt! Fascinating! It sounds like Vecellio was referring to a past culture/place - to which one, do you know? 16th century people (just like many people today) sometimes had Fantastical ideas about the practices of other cultures and/or past cultures that were not necessarily correct...😅
@@thecreativecontessa He was talking about his native Venice and Compagnia Della Calza in what seems to be the relatively recent past. He mentions old men being ridiculed for their dated style of dancing a few paragraphs later, and the accompanying illustration looks like an early 16th century man.
I'm searching for the workshop in which I can learn to make the medieval coif in the FUN With Medieval Headgear. How can I find it? Yes, I would like to, very much!!
Thank you for the question! It will be available for purchase on my website (link in the description) both as a stand-alone purchase and as part of the All-Access Pass, which will provide access to all my premium classes, workshops and tutorials for a year.
Thank you for the question! The collar in this video is a masterpiece made by an extremely skilled set of craftsmen who have spent years studying the art of casting, the fine artisans at Armour and Castings. I can highly recommend all of their work as I own many of their pieces. 🙂
I only like wearing head scarves like a bandana folded to a triangle onto my head on hot days or straw hats. Viels and wimples are the devil and make me feel claustrophobic. Sometimes I wear bandanas to bed to keep my head warm on cold days in my older home. You will never catch me most days with things on my head though. I get tension headaches and I'm tenderheaded.
Re: Paul, "a woman should have authority over her head" uses the same Greek word as the Septuagint Genesis "the sun had authority over the day" and the Gospels saying Jesus "taught as one having authority." In Constantinople, St. John Chrysostom inveighed against the mistress of a household ripping off the hat of a Christian slave woman, because that was part of her rightful dignity. All officers of a king or the Byzantine emperor wore diadem headbands, and that was what Christian women wearing hats were demonstrating that they were. (Goes along with Christians judging angels, sitting on thrones, and wearing crowns and white robes, and doing other things in eternal life, as officers of God's court. The hypotage word for "submit" was a military term for putting free cities' troops under a joint command headed by one general. It is not slavery. I do not know how well this was understood in different times and places in medieval Europe, however.
Thank you again for sharing those wonderful insights! Just like many translations of the various books of the Bible since, I suspect many of these nuances were lost as the centuries wore on and various translations and edits took ascendancy (and as political motivations started interfering with interpretation). The first English bibles were translated from the Latin Vulgate, for instance, not from surviving primary source material, and certainly not by people who had a well-rounded, deep understanding of Ancient Greek, Ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, etc. So I very much doubt that the average priest understood such linguistic details, let alone the average medieval person who absorbed the sermons of said preachers...The English translation that I quote in the video comes directly from the Wycliffe Bible, the earliest English version I believe, which was translated from what is now known as the Latin Vulgate in the state in which it was as of the end of the 14th century, and many scholars now seem acknowledge that St. Jerome was not necessarily the most accurate translator, nor does his work capture many of the sort of critical meanings that you mention. And in some crucial cases is outright incorrect relative to the original Hebrew, etc. That all being said, I am no biblical scholar, just a dabbler, so everything I just wrote may be wrong!
I agree. It is woeful how many parrot these popular tropes of certain historical people bring "misogynist" or similar epithets, without any real consideration of the fullness of what the person said nor of their context.
Personally, I despise headwear. (On me. You can do what you want. lol) I find most historical and modern headwear looks rather silly and. . .I'd rather not anything but hair be up there!! However. . .I have had to learn to wear hats regardless. With the sun getting fiercer, I burn SO fast, and my hair goes all crispy. So it makes sense to protect oneself from the sun. I've also had health issues that have had my already ridiculously fine hair go thin, so it's had to be chopped short. Putting stuff on my head hides my 'shame'. (Yeah, ok. Not really shame. No one cares nowdays, But the short hair is SO not me, and as thin and fine as it is, it's hard to style it so it does anything that resembles nice. So. . .hat and permanent hat-hair it is, I guess.) I wonder how wearing a coif would look. . .
@Elentarien thank you for sharing your experience and personal preferences! you are not alone! Many people I know do not like having anything on their heads. I personally love wearing hats and headdresses, but I realize that it is not everyone's cup of tea! It might be interesting to try a coffee and see if that is a happy medium between a full-on hat and crispy sunburnt hair?
But also, and more importantly, this is the passage that was cited by 15th century preachers as the reason why women should cover their hair. Unfortunately scriptural cherry-picking is not a new concept. 😏
It's so obvious people had another way of heating. First the video admits 0:38 they had fireplaces without chimneys.. they were not burning wood then. And even if they could only burn wood to keep warm, do you think they wouldn't have thought of doing that lol?
It is dangerous to generalize in that way. For instance, codpieces are a very late development in male fashion - end of the 15th century - and did not really become sexualized and phallus-like until the 16th century. Now, the super-fitted, ultra-short cotes worn by fashion-forward noblemen of the latter 14th century are certainly revealing on their own, but that was also a specific, discrete period of time.
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I just had an event where I unexpectedly stood retinue for Heirs visiting from another kingdom. Spent much of the day in the sun and I am a pale-skinned person! My linen veil kept the sun from my head and out of my eyes, soaked the sweat from my brow, and protected my neck from getting burnt. My long sleeved tunic kept me from getting burnt and actually helped keep me from overheating.
A lot of modern westerners forget that the sun touching one's skin will be hotter than the sun touching fabric that prevents the rays of the sun from touching one's skin! Especially when wearing layers where the base layer is linen!
I think I shall make this coif for wearing in summer. I have black hair and this seems simple but with mighty protection.
Well, I do like the narrator’s. Coif…
I dont know how you managed to make hats so interesting and entertaining but I look forward to seeing more of your videos. Thanks for the info
Thank you for taking the time to leave such a lovely compliment! Not everyone appreciates my particular brand of acerbic wit. In fact, this video and my series on medieval women's underpants are two of my most controversial videos, as per the comments. 😅
Also, welcome to my channel! ❤
The necklace the lady is wearing is gorgeous ❤ This segment is truly very informative. I love this
Thank you for the comment and compliments! You might also enjoy my segment on medieval women's underpants if you have not already seen it. 🙂
Oh, and the collar - It is a replica by Armour and Castings of an original worn by Maria Portinari as depicted in several different portraits of her. Their work is amazing! You will see several of their pieces in the video I am about to release on getting dressed Burgundian-style from the skin out.
"But if I had to, I'd sun blind myself first" is such a mood!
I wore boys school shorts rather than a skirt which wasn't allowed so I got dress coded. My gran and I said F that, and we made a sort of divided skirt situation with a lot of gathering and I wore that instead. Was fine for months, then someone saw it was actually shorts and dress coded me again forcing me to wear the school issue skirt (which I hated for sensory reasons and lack of comfort in a wheelchair.)
Then to add insult to injury I got dress coded for it being too short because when you sit down knee length skirts ride up. And I was in a wheelchair much of the time. To get one knee length sat down from the school supplier it would have been 4 sizes too big.
So I wore calf length skirts and when they tried to dress code me I bloody lost it and they called my Mum, who also went ballistic because they dress coded me essentially just because I used a wheelchair.
I got an exemption pass after that.
It didn't actually matter what I wore. Nothing was good enough. Even the regulation issue skirt got me coded. Boys very rarely got coded even if they were obviously breaking code, it was ALWAYS the girls 🙄
Yeah, I am a bit feisty! Thank you for sharing your story. Several people have accused this video of misandry, completely ignoring the very real question of misogyny and the way the women are often more restricted than men that I am actually addressing. One that obviously continues to this day in many places.
@@thecreativecontessa absolutely. People who equate stating a fact of our lived experience/the experiences of people in the past with missandry when speaking out against misogyny really grind my gears.
It's very frustrating 💕
@@zoes_story It is also truly sad that some of the greatest misogynists are women...There is a comment below this video complimenting the depth of information while also accusing me of misandry, and I am sad to see how many people have given it a thumbs up!
My husband and son are redheads and I sunburn nearly as easily as they do-about 10 minutes without protection. Hats and headcoverings are a necessity for all of us even here in An Tir (western Washington State). I have made linen hoods for the express purpose of wetting them down in hot weather. I have also found out that a redhead can sunburn through a single layer of light colored linen. I like veils an hoods because they keep the back of my neck from sunburn. Hats and hoods can hid a bad hair day too. Having come home from an event with hair smelling like a campfire, I can see coifs protecting from smoke and grunge. I can also see where headcoverings would protect the hair itself from abrasion and breakage and make for longer, healthier looking hair.
I almost always coordinate my garb with the appropriate headwear, and I find it a must to wear at least a simple white cap when I'm camping at a summer camping event like Lilies War. I can soak it in water to help keep me cool, and the white reflects back a lot of heat that my dark hair would just absorb!
The soaked coif technique is indeed an excellent one! Thank you for commenting! It really supports the channel! :-)
I love the subtle digs.
Thank you! Some people appreciate my wry sense of humor - others can be offended by it (complete with accusations of misandry)! 😅
I totally appreciate your sense of humour!@@thecreativecontessa
I have covered my head since my first event. With various materials and varying degrees of success. 😁 Highly recommend linen during the summer! My first veil was white cotton and, while not terrible, it was no comparison to the linen one I was able to purchase.
Thank you for sharing, Lenora! Linen really is the far superior fabric as far as heat dispersion goes!
I went into head covering as a way to help me with my prayer life. i have always had a passion for historical clothing but was ashamed, because I thought i would be judge. Now that I did my DNA n found out that I am German , now I know it is all part of who I am, so i base my style around head coverings. I stand out n am very fashionable in my own style n culture.
What sort of head coverings do you tend to wear on a daily basis? I personally where a variety from broad-brimmed hats, to caps, to scarfs tied fetchingly. Full covering I generally reserved for historical representation, although I do sometimes think wearing the coif is a much easier solution for hair than actually styling it! 😅
@@thecreativecontessa Yes I wear hats in the summer cause I live in Texas, but am intrested in learning as much about German head wrapping as I can, I am looking for a part of my identity that was stolen from me a long time ago.
Re: coronation coifs, this goes along with Confirmation headbands used to catch the oil of chrism (which was a blessed sacramental that you would not want to drip on the floor or waste).
A coronation coif would catch the anointing oil, preserve its sweet smell, and allow maximum exposure to holiness if worn for a whole week (as well as keeping the king or queen mindful of their new office and charismatic gifts).
Agreed that this was exactly the purpose. The coronation ceremony was all about rendering tangible the otherwise intangible transition from non-ruler to God-Appointed Ruler, so all of these little aspects were meant to made an indelidble impression for the participants as well as the witnesses. This was also why there was an entire set of undressing/dressing rituals in many coronation ceremonies (when I was crowned Queen of the European SCA kingdom, we incorporated many of the medieval transformation rituals into the ceremony, including the dressing in new ceremonial clothing and annointing with oil mixed with the soil from the four corners of the kingdom).
Nothing worse than taking off your helmet after fighting a little bit, and your hat is nowhere to be found by the time someone comes by to snap a photo, and so they capture the magnificence of your armor and your person, save for that being topped with a less-than-flattering almost bedhead-like sweat-drenched hairdo.
Nope, a hat is a must for me. One of my squire’s main jobs is to get me my hat once I take off the helmet.
Bare helmet hair is definitely not a good look for anyone, and one that should especially not be immortalized on the forgetless Interwebz!
I've been doing a Children's garb workshop/round table for over 10 years now. One of the first things I put on my handout was to have the babies and toddlers wear coifs. One it protects their heads and two it gets them use to wearing hats. I admit I'm not great at wearing a hat or coif but I've started wearing them more often especially around my house as they help keep my hair out of my face.
I had to go back and check, the thing I was about to write was about an article I read ...it would be more than 10 years ago now about beards being a key identifier for when children had become "men" / adults in the medieval German states. When I went back to your specific question you mention looking for identifiers of "bachelorhood"-- so not entirely the same thing, identity but not marital status/ "availability on the proverbial meat market" x'D
My kid's doing a project on... "hats" ... so this was my first stop before trying to help find relevant material before we talk about everybody's favorite skill... notetaking. yaaaay =D
Anywhosit. Very informative, quirky-- but humorous.
I own sixty or seventy hats of different styles (but no baseball caps), and never go out bare-headed. I do not, however, own a coif. I need to get one!
I have played in a band for many years now and have made it me thing to whare a different hat every time we play
Fedoras, tricorn, war bonnet you name it
I've kept my hair covered for many years now! I coordinate my Headwear with my outfits and feel much happier this way.
I'm a fan of hats. Good ways to keep your head warm and dry in rainy weather, and you have both hands free. Also good for avoiding sunburn on top of your head, an experience I vigorously try to avoid.
Thank yo. I really enjoy the discussion about the soical significance of a covered head vs an uncovered one. I will be the first to admit my hair is my biggest vanity. And when I leave it down at events, it is on purpose. I simply feel prettier with it down. I also hide behind it is a way. When I cover my hair with a veil, or coif, it is for specific goals. Keep the sun off, pad a coronet, look more period apprpriate/put together. I love exploring various ways to braid and cover my hair in the SCA. But I will invariable default to the modern asthetic of leaving it down.
I would feel just partially dressed if I didn't wear my hairnet and veil. So it's interesting to hear that people really dislike covering their heads. The video was fascinating, I've never thought about trying to save your hair from soot! As a "crespinettiere" or a female hairnet maker, I would have loved to seen them too.
There was so much more headgear I wanted to display, but I ran out of video - I am thinking of doing another video at some point with more details and other headpieces. I have so many extant crispinettes in my folder of extant pieces! But, I di include one crispinette in the video, time stamp 6:07, a queen out hunting is wearing a crispinette and veil. :-)
AndL thank you so much for watching and commenting! Great support for my channel, and I love the discussions. I too find it fascinating how some people detest wearing things upon their head. The thing that made me think of saving one's hair from soot was living in countries with major pollution issues - my hair stays much nicer if I keep it in protective braids and covered by a hat than if I expose it to the foul air!
I dislike having bonnets or veils. I prefer to wear straw hats and bandanas to cover my hair. I will wear a bandana to bed in my cold bedroom to keep my head warm. They absorb hair oils well
Fabulous and fantastic!
Thanks for making this video. I adore headgear of all kinds but have never learned to make my own coif. I will look for your videos.
Glad you enjoyed, thank you for commenting!
Been leaving my 19th-20th century comfort zone to learn about all the gorgeous fashions of medieval times…what a treasure trove your channel is! Lots of easy to understand knowledge and great pictures! You deserve to blow up with fame, the historical costuming community needs more people like you! 🩷
Wow, thank you! Your comment really made my day! I fear I may have joined the Historical Costuber community too late for fame (or even a decent income for the amount of effort this all takes), but I'll keep going a little while longer and see what happens! Welcome to my Creative Community, and I look forward to walking this path with you!
I loathe headcoverings as they NEVER seem to stay on my head. I end up messing with them constantly. It's one of the reasons I love 16th century Italian garb!
So happy to discover you! Both fascinating and hilarious! What talent!
I apologize, I missed this comment! Thank you for the compliments and for watching!:-)
I love the necklace, as someone who works with beads of all shapes and sizes I would love to see a closeup of it🤗🤗🤗🤗
In fact, we took a quick video up close specifically for that purpose. 😀 The majority of it is cast with pearls and semi-precious stones set throughout. Let me see if I can figure out where we posted that video...
🇨🇦 I enjoyed this talk so much I subscribed! Looking forward to more from you. 😊 Especially loved the rebellious comments! 🤣 that would be sooo me….😂
The only reason I wear hats and cover my head is purely from personal choice & preference. I love wearing hats. Have always loved wearing hats since a young child! And when wearing coif like scarf coverings came back in style in the 1970’s & 1980’s I loved wearing them. Having long hair, it was so easy to tuck everything under a head covering and get on with my day! Never having to worry about if my hair needed washing that day. And you can get quite creative with head coverings & scarves to create quite some stylish looks. Now I am much older and my hair is too thin to do much with. I still have long hair and it’s easy to hide under hair coverings, giving me some stylish looks. I still wear my many hats. The wider the brims the better! Cool in summer and warm in winter! What’s not to love?
When I travel, my hat boxes come with me. Always.
Thank you for commenting and complimenting! I actually got accused of misandry in this video due to my rebellious sidebars. Some people enjoy my sense of humor; others not so much! In any case, it is nice to meet a fellow hat person - I am rather fond of wearing headgear from all periods of history (my black sunhat is a signature piece on my Travels With The Contessa channel). If you enjoyed this video, I think you will enjoy my other content as well, in particular the two-parter on medieval women's underwear and my getting dressed in the 15th century video. Again, thank you for your support! :-)
Yup that's how my orange kitty sounds.😺
It makes my head itch.🤷🏼♀️
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Thanx, these are a lot of interesting (and IMHO for a "normal" person unknown) facts!
👍 - _also_ for the YT algo! 😊
P.S.: I can't stress it enough: I love your sense of humor! 🤣
1:35 "Good times for lungs..." 🤗
😅 thank you for grasping my acerbic sense of humor! 😊
Very cool, thank you! I love all the little tidbits and details you've included...such a fun rabbit hole/warren to explore! (Also, your cat is adorable.)
Thank you for the comment and compliment! Very pleased you enjoyed! And my cat is very much aware of his weaponized cuteness. Sigh.... 😀
I really feel like someone from the Midldle Ages once my coif & veil are on.
Ditto!
I very much dislike wearing a head covering so I chose a persona who doesn't necessarily wear one. I do love when folk finish their outfit with an appropriate topper though.
Love your necklace!!
Thank you for sharing! Do you tend to pick fashions that style their hair instead of covering it? And thank you for the compliment - work by Armour and Casting, a Ukrainen jeweler that makes amazing reproductions!
When working on my farm in the summer have been looking for a lightweight coif that I once saw in a video but have never seen again. It had rather long strings to gather the back of it but the strings then tied up around the hair bun - not around the head. I find scarves & wraps that anchor to my hair stay so much better & don’t give the headache & ear rubbing that other types do.
It sounds like you may be talking about St brigittas coiff. It is actually one of the pictures in the video. Let me see if I can find a link and post here. :-)
Convinced, very much, not least because winter is coming and it is going to get nippy, and I find modern caps, for the most part, dreadfully boring. Let there be coifs and hats with all the trimmings 😁
Also, sleeping caps make a lot of sense, especially when camping out for an event.
I think you may be the first person to directly answer my closing question! Thank you so much! 😀
@@thecreativecontessa well, it was a very valid question 😅
Your videos are always so informative! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for taking the time to comment and for the compliments! So pleased you have been enjoying my work. :-)
I love this video. incredibly well put info and very informative. Thank you.
Tonessa, I greatly appreciate the feedback and you taking the time to comment here! Thank you! :-)
I admire your examples from the Portinari Altarpiece.
@LQOTW thank you! It is such a stunning piece of art. But of course, the photos can never do it as much justice as standing directly in front of it!
@LQOTW not certain if you've seen, but I put out a video on the female headdresses in that work of art. 😊 th-cam.com/video/JCg8ZuBEGxw/w-d-xo.html
This is a very informative video on why women covered their hair in the Medieval period.
Thank you for watching and commenting! 😊
By the way, I really like wearing my medieval "headgear":
My simple wool hat (model type "flat cooking pot") is super comfortable and I can use it for nearly all epochs, my Gugel (hood?) is very warm and protective, my Chaperon is very elegant and stylish!
Speaking of Chaperon: In the summer (where most of our medieval events take place) I'm often asked whether it wouldn't be very warm underneath... My answer, pointing to the "hose" (tail) of the Chaperon: "But no, there's an air conditioning system installed!" 😁
Some visitors still believe this...
Fun fact (you probably know that): The Chaperon was supposedly “invented” by men who intentionally wore their Gugel the wrong way round: The cut-out for the face was simply put over the head so that the shoulder protection hung down at the back (i.e. the tail).
Thank you for sharing! Indeed, I have found imagery from the late 14th century that shows the transition from wearing the hood "properly" to "chaperon" style. And I conur that the chaperon is indeed a stylish choice of headwear!
I like to wear head coverings. The serve a purpose (heating/cooling and sun protection.) and they make me feel more accurate as a lady never left the house without her hair covered. Im just flummoxed on how one wears them properly. I am learning though.
Agreed on all scores! With which type of headcovering are you struggling? I may be able to provide concrete guidance. 🙂
@@thecreativecontessa honestly. All of them. Wearing a veil pinned to a coif seems to be the answer I see given most of the time. So I am working on making a st Brigit’s cap. I would LOVE to see more head covering videos and maybe tutorials on how to make them?
@@Diniecita what is your target period/region? The method of securing a veil and the type of coif varies sometimes massively from time and place to time and place. :-)
Avoiding head live may have been another reason for the close fitting headwear. Coif/quiff
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Wonder if Edward II's murders removed his coif before spike insertion up...? I like head coverings bc it protects hair and face from sun.
Apparently, that account of Edward II's death is actually believed to be false by most historians. There's even some evidence that he was still alive in the 1330s!
I cover my head on a daily basis as a Muslima (usually with a hijab, ofcourse). That's why I'm very happy women did so in medieval times in Europe too, because it means that I can just wear a wimple and veil with my medieval outfit and both be period correct and covered in the way I choose to myself, religiously speaking. Plus ofcourse, as you say, the added bonus of sun protection.
Thank you for sharing! I also enjoy how much simpler it can be to Simply cover with hair with a coif, Veil, hood, or turban, then to worry about styling my hair in some fashion!
While eminently practical, and sometimes very pretty, I dislike the convention of keeping my hair covered ( I am 57, and married). I kmow it's period, but I hate it, LOL, though I will generally wear a coif or veil.
Love a hat - normally vintage or late Victorian. Just made my first Regency cap which is the earliest time period so far but an Elizabethan project is coming up so I expect more to come. I'm sure medieval will hove into view at some point in the future! First video I've watched of yours - very enjoyable. Will be back!
Thank you for watching, for the compliment and for the great comment! I am such a hat person in general and love an elegant vintage-style or late Victorian hat to accompany even my "modern" wear - nice to meet a fellow hat enthusiast! Historical fashion really is a chain drug for sewists...One period leading to another, to another, to another...If this is your first time on my channel, have you seen any of my 1480s Getting Dressed Series?
- not yet but I'm sure I'll watch them soon.
I especially liked the head coverings from Zefferelli's Romeo and Juliet. Some were quite attractive 😍
Thank you for taking the time to comment! I concur with with you, that film had possibly some of the best attempt at Italian Renaissance clothing I have ever seen on the big screen. I was in Florence two years ago, I dressed up in full Florentine finery with my Florentine matron style veil,, the one in which often scene at balls or outside at events. I passed a group of Tunisian gentleman while walking from the place I was staying into town who found my entire ensemble extremely attractive and let me know in very respectful but definitely very clear terms. So it's very interesting how different people find different addresses to be attractive!
The young men in Antonello da Messina portraits for the most part wear those dashing pillbox hats.
Indeed, I think the hats worn by men in various polities in 15th century Italy are some of the most magnificent headgear in the history of European fashion!
I actually wear a hat when leaving my home. A modified Stetson that survived my "Western Chic" period. A Coif is one of the few things i actually succeeded in making, well i also have one in maille, but i mean a cotton one. In lieu of linnen. As for sleeping with headgear, since the landlord thought it was a great idea to save on central heating, i started to wear a russian style fur cap. I would strike a somewhat curious appearance, as the rest of my sleep gear consists of a drop of Camel N:O 5 under each armpit. Great video, i will most likely watch it many times.
Thank you for sharing, Thomas - do you enjoy having a more, um, medieval sleeping experience in the comfort of your full-time home? :-D
And also, thank you for the compliment; so gratified that you enjoyed it enough to rewatch. :-)
@@thecreativecontessa Absolutely, What was good enough for the Romans and Medieval people is good enough for me. Coming from a Sauna culture helps, of course. When in private, alone, or with a loved one.
@@thomasrehbinder7722 I was actually referring specifically to the fact that your landlord keeps the temperature at Medieval levels, but that's fair as well! :D
@@thecreativecontessa Oh, that. Well, i better get used to it. Hard times are here, and it will get worse. No matter, i can live in a log cabin with packed dirt floor. Our ancestors did. I'm built for it.
Well men wore elaborate hats, hoods and cowls during the middle ages too they also wore caps under some of those hats and when they went to bed. Fur, velvet and silk adorned men's heads, not just women's.
For certain men, like women, covered their heads in increasingly elaborate ways as the centuries wore on; I never stated otherwise! In fact, several of the extant hats that I show throughout the video were most likely worn by men and not women. :-) Was this comment in response to my question about whether there were any headcovering-related indicators of bachelorhood vs. marriage for medieval men as there were in many places for women? In which case, to clarify, that was specifically about headwear as a sign of martital status and not about men wearing hats at all.🙂
Great video!
Thank you for watching and the compliment! Pleased that you enjoyed. :-)
I like to cover on the warmer days or cooler days at events. I normally just take a long Scarf and throw it over my head.
I actually started wearing hats and other headpieces in my Modern Life after I started wearing them in my medieval life! I feel very odd now going outside without something upon my pate! 😅
A great video on a variety of headgear. I love my skjoldehamn hood. I can cope with my St. Birgitta's cap and veil when dressed in my 13-1400's garb. I tend to go bareheaded most of the time though as trying to pin down what a 900's AD Norse woman wore on her head is a right pain. If it is really hot, I'll wear my straw hat.
Thank you for the compliment and for sharing! As for 900s AD Norse, there have been some finds, including the hoods from Yorvik (such as the silk one in the video) and another one in Lincoln (both of which I discovered while researching for my coif workshop). Have you seen those?
And indeed, a brimmed straw hat seems to be a trans-era, trans-regional winner for time spent in the heat and direct sun!
@@thecreativecontessa Yes, I have seen those. My persona is 900-950ad Gotland Varangian Norse for the most part. This is where I get 'bogged down' so to speak. I can fast forward to the 1400's and find stuff, I can leave the island and find other cultures that have head wraps. What I am not finding is sources showing what Gotlanders wore. I know more about the armor from Wisby than I do headgear from 400 years earlier. sigh...
I have friends in Gotland who do Gotland Norse and also contacts at the Visby museum (As Queen, I held court in the great runestone hall of Visby Museum...Talk about power radiating...). Would you like me to put you in contact with them?
@@thecreativecontessa I would be delighted! Thank you! Part of my family is from Sweden, and according to 'family history', some of them came from Gotland, hence my choice of persona.
I personally don't like wearing headgear. I find them too hot, and it itches after a short time. If I have to wear something, like at an all-day outdoors event, I have a silk hood that I'll wear.
Thank you for sharing! Out of curiosity, is it all fibers that cause such a reaction?
@@thecreativecontessa it seems to be. I run naturally hot, so that might be more of the problem than the fibers itself. The only hat I've ever had that wasn't a problem was a modern safari-style hat with ventilation in the top, and it's not terribly comfortable to wear in general.
Very interesting content! I greatly enjoyed this video!
Thank you for the comment and compliment! Very pleased you enjoyed - these sorts of essay videos take quite a lot of effort, so it's gratifying to know when the work is worth it.😊
Interesting and funny!
Thank you for watching and leaving such a lovely comment! 😊
I believe the "illegally occupying churches" thing was about how it became popular for groups of thugs of various levels of legal dealings to use churches as home bases. While there was a bit of that "claiming sanctuary" stuff from criminals holing up after a heist happening, is was way less that and way more that church buildings were considered public property and were therefore open and accessible to everyone at all hours. So people up to no good see this nice, sturdy, free-to-use building as a great place to meet and hang out all the time, and start pushing the actual worshippers and clergy out, either just by being there or with actual force. Declaring this illegal gave communities and clergy grounds to push back and call in guards or forces to remove such people, and to prevent anyone staying too long in the church who shouldn't be there.
Indeed, Lorenzo de Medici and his brother were the victims of such an illegal and thuggish use Church Sanctuary space!
@@thecreativecontessa How interesting! I will look that up. This was definitely a case of "hear a new thing one time and then it pops up everywhere". The church occupation thing came up in "Lazarillo de Tormes" and then it immediately came up in your video. And there was an article about senior citizens occupying McDonald's restaurants this morning, too, so it's everywhere! Though I'm guessing the church issue wasn't resolved by turning the air conditioner on full blast and switching the chairs to stools, like the modern McDonald's issues were, but it's always fun to see how humans run into the same problems again and again throughout history.
Like hats for utility. In summer only want them for shade. My hair is too thick.
Fair enough! I wish thick hair were an issue I had. 😅
I have come across some hideous medicocre and some real ultra. Evil hoods none of which would not be unimproved inside out on your face ❤
I love your medieval head covering you have on in this video... Can you please tell me what the name of this type is called and the country or area of Europe where it was worn and about when? If it fits my persona (at least somewhat), I would love to learn to make one for myself. Thank you ☺
Thank you for the question and commenting in general! This is a type of coif that is sometimes referred to as a Flemish coif or a winged coif. It dates to the second half of the 15th century and seems to have been worn by people in England, Burgundy, the Low Countries, France, and Brittany. I do sometimes offer live Zoom workshops on making this style of coif by hand because it makes a good introduction piece for hand sewing and basic tailoring. Those classes can be booked on my website, thecreativecontessa.com :-)
@@thecreativecontessa Thank you my current persona is farther north but it was interesting to check out your website. How cool it is that you consult on movies, etc.
"And truly, one must assume that the young men of that time were so honorable and far from any evildoing that they refrained from carnal delights until the age of 30 (as far as one can believe) and remained pure and uncorrupted, for the clothing they wore permits no other conclusion. They wore their hair as long as it would grow, and made great efforts to keep it beautiful and shiny, but in a way that imitated the cleanliness and neatness of churchmen rather than the vanity and frivolity of women. And this hair, when it was worn with a circlet of velvet or some other material of silk or gold, was a sign of the virginity of the young man who wore it.” said Cesare Vecellio in his 1590 Trachtenbuch. Seems like some evidence the same principle applied to both women and men. Male hairnets show up frequently in German sources.
Thank you for sharing that excerpt! Fascinating! It sounds like Vecellio was referring to a past culture/place - to which one, do you know? 16th century people (just like many people today) sometimes had Fantastical ideas about the practices of other cultures and/or past cultures that were not necessarily correct...😅
@@thecreativecontessa He was talking about his native Venice and Compagnia Della Calza in what seems to be the relatively recent past. He mentions old men being ridiculed for their dated style of dancing a few paragraphs later, and the accompanying illustration looks like an early 16th century man.
Could someone tell me what the style of necklace she's wearing is called?
That is called a collar - sometimes referred to as a devys in 15th century English sources.
I'm searching for the workshop in which I can learn to make the medieval coif in the FUN With Medieval Headgear. How can I find it? Yes, I would like to, very much!!
Thank you for the question! It will be available for purchase on my website (link in the description) both as a stand-alone purchase and as part of the All-Access Pass, which will provide access to all my premium classes, workshops and tutorials for a year.
1250 AD v. 1850 AD i wonder who was cleaner?
Indeed, I suspect the earlier date would win that competition on an average basis...
Hi is there a tutorial for the necklace in this video?
Thank you for the question! The collar in this video is a masterpiece made by an extremely skilled set of craftsmen who have spent years studying the art of casting, the fine artisans at Armour and Castings. I can highly recommend all of their work as I own many of their pieces. 🙂
please tell me about your neclace and how to obtain one. thank you
Best bg
Thank you! 😊
I only like wearing head scarves like a bandana folded to a triangle onto my head on hot days or straw hats. Viels and wimples are the devil and make me feel claustrophobic. Sometimes I wear bandanas to bed to keep my head warm on cold days in my older home. You will never catch me most days with things on my head though. I get tension headaches and I'm tenderheaded.
Thank you for sharing your personal experience and approach! Would a linen coif (like my winged one) pose an issue as well, do you think?
Re: Paul, "a woman should have authority over her head" uses the same Greek word as the Septuagint Genesis "the sun had authority over the day" and the Gospels saying Jesus "taught as one having authority."
In Constantinople, St. John Chrysostom inveighed against the mistress of a household ripping off the hat of a Christian slave woman, because that was part of her rightful dignity. All officers of a king or the Byzantine emperor wore diadem headbands, and that was what Christian women wearing hats were demonstrating that they were. (Goes along with Christians judging angels, sitting on thrones, and wearing crowns and white robes, and doing other things in eternal life, as officers of God's court.
The hypotage word for "submit" was a military term for putting free cities' troops under a joint command headed by one general. It is not slavery.
I do not know how well this was understood in different times and places in medieval Europe, however.
Thank you again for sharing those wonderful insights! Just like many translations of the various books of the Bible since, I suspect many of these nuances were lost as the centuries wore on and various translations and edits took ascendancy (and as political motivations started interfering with interpretation). The first English bibles were translated from the Latin Vulgate, for instance, not from surviving primary source material, and certainly not by people who had a well-rounded, deep understanding of Ancient Greek, Ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, etc. So I very much doubt that the average priest understood such linguistic details, let alone the average medieval person who absorbed the sermons of said preachers...The English translation that I quote in the video comes directly from the Wycliffe Bible, the earliest English version I believe, which was translated from what is now known as the Latin Vulgate in the state in which it was as of the end of the 14th century, and many scholars now seem acknowledge that St. Jerome was not necessarily the most accurate translator, nor does his work capture many of the sort of critical meanings that you mention. And in some crucial cases is outright incorrect relative to the original Hebrew, etc. That all being said, I am no biblical scholar, just a dabbler, so everything I just wrote may be wrong!
3:51 misogynist? How was he a misogynist? I agree with him.
I agree. It is woeful how many parrot these popular tropes of certain historical people bring "misogynist" or similar epithets, without any real consideration of the fullness of what the person said nor of their context.
@@MidnightIsolde Right, thank you.
Personally, I despise headwear. (On me. You can do what you want. lol) I find most historical and modern headwear looks rather silly and. . .I'd rather not anything but hair be up there!! However. . .I have had to learn to wear hats regardless. With the sun getting fiercer, I burn SO fast, and my hair goes all crispy. So it makes sense to protect oneself from the sun. I've also had health issues that have had my already ridiculously fine hair go thin, so it's had to be chopped short. Putting stuff on my head hides my 'shame'. (Yeah, ok. Not really shame. No one cares nowdays, But the short hair is SO not me, and as thin and fine as it is, it's hard to style it so it does anything that resembles nice. So. . .hat and permanent hat-hair it is, I guess.) I wonder how wearing a coif would look. . .
@Elentarien thank you for sharing your experience and personal preferences! you are not alone! Many people I know do not like having anything on their heads. I personally love wearing hats and headdresses, but I realize that it is not everyone's cup of tea! It might be interesting to try a coffee and see if that is a happy medium between a full-on hat and crispy sunburnt hair?
Oh....it's a wonder we have any Catholic women at all. But we have plenty of very happy Catholic women like me!😅
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📯🕒⏳⌛; finish the KJVB Scripture } womens hair IS her COVER ‼️‼️‼️❗
The King James version is post-medieval. I'm reading from the Wycliffe Bible of the 15th century.
But also, and more importantly, this is the passage that was cited by 15th century preachers as the reason why women should cover their hair. Unfortunately scriptural cherry-picking is not a new concept. 😏
Saint Paul is not a misogynist, but a saint, whose writing was inspired by God. Thank you for inspiring me to further obedience to God.
It's so obvious people had another way of heating. First the video admits 0:38 they had fireplaces without chimneys.. they were not burning wood then. And even if they could only burn wood to keep warm, do you think they wouldn't have thought of doing that lol?
Men were just as sexualized as women with their hose and cod pieces.
It is dangerous to generalize in that way. For instance, codpieces are a very late development in male fashion - end of the 15th century - and did not really become sexualized and phallus-like until the 16th century. Now, the super-fitted, ultra-short cotes worn by fashion-forward noblemen of the latter 14th century are certainly revealing on their own, but that was also a specific, discrete period of time.
Also, is this comment in response to a specific section of the video? 🙂
Fairly informative but I could do without the misandry.
The unfortunate thing is , headcovering has been misogynistic . She's not showing misandry . Just cold hard facts