#bonnets

[shiftythrifting]

Worcester Goodwill

[orofeaiel]

Bonnets

[artschoolglasses]

Costume Parisien Fashion Plate, 1812

From Paris Musees, les Musees de la Ville de Paris

[retropopcult]

"Commuters at train station, upstate New York." Photographed at North Creek Station outside Johnsburg, 1911.

[incognitopolls]

Do you use a bonnet? Are you Black?

I'm Black and use a bonnet

I'm Black and DON'T use a bonnet

I'm Black and I don't use a bonnet, but WOULD if my hair was longer

I'm NOT Black, but I have textured hair and use a bonnet

I'm NOT Black, but I have textured hair and DON'T use a bonnet

NOT Black, textured hair, don't use one but WOULD if my hair was longer

I'm NOT Black, I have straight hair, and I DO use a bonnet

I'm NOT Black, I have straight hair, and DON'T use a bonnet

NOT black, straight hair, don't use one but WOULD if my hair was longer

Other

Voting ended onDec 17, 2024

We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

[naturalhairhow101]

Section...

[littlealienproducts]

PATTERN for an elevated, adult knitted cat hat / kitty ears bonnet that ties under the chin by uglibabies

[sartorialadventure]

French, 1778

The last two images are a costume of an "infernal goddess" (please note the batwing shapes and the belt of snakes!). Because the colors are not mentioned in the description, the fashion plate has been colored two different ways, presumably by two different artists. You can also see how much clearer the details are in the second plate.

On the underskirt, the thing that looks like a baguette with wings is actually a heraldic symbol of a thunderbolt! It was genuinely imagined like a "bolt". The zig-zagging lines on the skirt might also represent lightning - note the little triangles that look like arrowheads on the bottoms of the lines. The rings appear to be almost an ouroboros: two snakes biting one another to form a loop. I can also see flames of fire, and what MIGHT be some kind of insects at the intersections of the lines? Let me know what you think they might be! Lots of snakes, and she's holding a caduceus (snake on a stick), which is weird, because that's the symbol of Asclepius, god of healing, which is not an underworld symbol at all. And what's with the cloud on top? I wonder if that's actually supposed to be a TREE with a snake around it, representing the serpent in the Garden of Eden? Her brooch appears to be a head of Medusa, with serpents for hair.