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A snood is a tube-shaped piece of stretchable cloth that can be worn either around the neck as a scarf or around the head as a kind of hood. [1] Snood scarves can be made from the light clothing material, like silk, to wear in the spring- and summertime, or knitted cloth and even fur to provide warmth in the winter. Snood arrangements on the ...
19th century painting of a woman wearing a snood (by Adolph Menzel) Two women working at a Texas Naval Air Base in 1942, wearing hairnets (snoods) A snood (/ s n uː d /) is a type of traditionally female headgear, with two types known. The long-gone Scottish snood was a circlet made of ribbon worn by Scottish young women as a symbol of ...
A type of hood called Capirote is being worn in Hispanic countries by members of a confraternity of penitents. The word traces back to Old English hod "hood," from Proto-Germanic *hodaz (cf. Old Saxon, Old Frisian hod "hood," Middle Dutch hoet, Dutch hoed "hat," Old High German huot "helmet, hat, Gugel", German Hut "hat," Old Frisian hode "guard, protection"), from PIE *kadh- "cover".
Depiction of St. Helena wearing a bycocket (circa 1380) Falconers wearing bycocket caps (circa 1240). A bycocket or bycoket is a style of hat that was fashionable for both men and women in Western Europe from the 13th to the 16th century.
Snood may refer to: Snood scarf, a tube-like scarf that can be used as a hood; Snood (headgear), a type of hood or hairnet; Snood (anatomy), an erectile, fleshy protuberance attached near the base of a turkey's beak; A type of bait holder used on a crabbing trotline; Snood, a 1996 puzzle game
A Kullu shawl is a type of shawl made in Kullu, India, featuring various geometrical patterns and bright colors.Originally, indigenous Kulivi people would weave plain shawls, but following the arrival of craftspeople from Bushahr in the early 1940s, the trend of more patterned shawls came to rise.
The Groves Classification is a numbering system to enable the shape of any academic gown or hood to be easily described and identified. It was devised by Nicholas Groves to establish a common terminology for hoods and gowns to remedy the situation of individual universities using differing terms to describe the same item.
Galway shawl on fish seller, Claddagh, Galway, Ireland, 1905. The term Galway shawl (Irish: seál na Gaillimhe) [1] usually refers to a specific type of heavyweight shawl that was worn by Irish women during the colder seasons.