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The simple headscarf has over centuries been used as a political statement, as a way to control women, banned, made mandatory, and hailed as a symbol of religious need, and of course, seen as a luxury item of desire The simplicity of beautiful plain or printed silk or cotton squares has a long history far more complex than this little square (of oblong) of fabric would initially seem. Find out more in Hair Do<\/em> as opposed to hair don’t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scarf, seen as both a sign of liberation and imprisonment, of progress and regression. Throughout history, the headscarf has sat on the heads of women and men from royalty including Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth II to the wild and extravagant flappers of the 1920s as well as political statements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The headscarf was actually born out of necessity, with wearers across Mesopotamian societies using linen pieces as protection from the rain and sun. But it wasn’t until the 13th century that it became written in certain religious texts; daughters and widows should cover their heads as a sign of piety. No low-class women or prostitutes were allowed to wear them so they had a social stigma attached already.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Black leather jackets worn by the defiant Black Panther Party during the US civil rights movement or by those that wanted to be associated with Rock and Roll, scarves also became ubiquitous with social movements throughout history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1786, the Tignon Laws were introduced in Louisiana which required Black and mixed-race women to wrap their heads in cloth. Yet, these women had already been wrapping their hair as a marker of identity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 1970s, the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a group of Argentine women trying to find information about their missing children, began wearing white headscarves known as “pa\u00f1uelos,” as a symbol of unity, whilst also symbolising the fabric diapers they would have used for their children. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some countries as recently as 2004 have banned hijabs with the United Nations stating that the ban on full-face niqab could marginalize Muslim women and is a violation of their human rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However as a staple of luxury fashion in was in the 1910s French fashion houses started designs that included colourful, embellished scarves for the head. French couturier Paul Poiret showed headscarves in bold patterns, sometimes affixed with a centred jewel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As women became liberated, donned bobbed hairdos, and participated in sports they used scarves to cover their hair while riding in newly designed cars as seen on many-a-film-star think, Anna Mae Wong and Elizabeth Taylor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most desired of scarves may well come from French brand Herm\u00e8s. Debuting its first scarf in 1937, with an elaborate woodblock design on imported Chinese silk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Again it was a class feature as worn by such dignitaries as Queen Elizabeth II of England, American First Lady Jacqueline Lee Kennedy Onassis and Princess Grace Kelly of Monaco, the last of whom once nonchalantly used her Herm\u00e8s scarf to fashionably sling her injured arm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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World War II and the return of the utilitarian headscarf, as women took up jobs in factories as men were on the battlefields. In the UK the image of a working woman in a headscarf was used as propaganda as well as protection of hair whilst working in such environments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Post-war, nylon scarves were often worn tied around the neck or over the head and wrapped around the neck to protect hairstyles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the counterculture of the 1960s, the headscarf again was worn in a political statement but also for experimental fashions. In mainstream culture, however, women wore them to protect their hairstyles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n