on the subjects of covering their hair in sweden

norsesuggestions:

pandoratelenor:

i just wanted to show how very much the common folk had covered hair in sweden, and ALSO how very recentaly this custom stopped being standard by showing some photos tagged as huckle (=headcovering) at digitialtmusuem (a swedish project to digitalize swedish musuems collections)

and yes there are several rules of when your hair is covered and not etc etc. and variations depending in particular of social status, age and gender. but still, just to see some examples how very widespread headscarves as headcovering was in sweden historically!

also all these photos come with the disclaimer that most of these are taken by musuem workers who worked with “documenting the pre-industrial sweden of the 19th century”. therefore, sometimes people are posing in their older clothes, of which are actually unfashionable and rarely used already when the photo is taken etc. BUT STILL.

people involved in milk productions, posing for the camera year

1920, sweden. taken in sweden. pic source

fish industry worker. photo from 1970. taken in Hälsingland, Sweden. link

photo of mrs Karin Ödsmål. taken the year 1949

(alhtough as a disclaimer i assume this Karin Ödsmål is posing in her older clothes from back in the day on this photo. just because that is very 19th century fashion for 1949. but STILL) source

Lovisa Torgersson, born around 1855 posing for a photo in the garden of the house of her cousins. photo taken in bohuslän, sweden.

photo taken around 1900. source

the sister Tyra Karlsson and Klara Karlsson infront of their home in
Råröd. they are also holding their cats

on the photo. photo taken about
1922-23

in råröd. source

and there are so many more of these pics!

basically to simplify, before about the middle of the 20th century, headscarves was a widespread custom in sweden.

we are talking here about, like my mother still remember all the old women wearing headscarves when she was young (in the 1960s). so. headscarves as headcovering is actually, historically, the standard during large parts of swedens history.

so anyway, this is why it is absurdly racist when white swedish people critize muslim women in hijabi and other faiths who use headcoverings.

to recentaly, swedish women wore headcovering the majority of the time too! and when i say recently, i mean that just two generations ago, not wearing a headcovering would have been a totally unknown thoughts for the majority of the common folk of sweden.

admin note

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