Women embrace ancient traditions of covering | Picture This | The Seattle Times
A lovely photographic essay sharing the modern ancient tradition of wearing head coverings. Photographers, their subjects, and editors have done fine work sharing and educating. Highly recommended viewing.
In a time when so many things divide Americans, I hope that the
photos, captions and video can help increase some cross-cultural
understanding. The photos and video span from brides in boutiques to
Sikhs in processions. First communions to Sabbath preparations. Somali
shopping malls to pastoral homes to Eastside mosques.
The photos and video are not fully representative of all religions
and cultures. Instead, this is a collection of some local women's
perspectives.
Posted by Erika Schultz
3 comments:
I can understand all of these womens different reasons for covering. But regarding the old jewish woman I must say I find it quite absurd. I mean a blonde wig that one goes and get done like a regular hairdo at the saloon now and then? To cover up in a modest way? REALLY? I almost thought it was a joke at first. From what I´ve read the idéa of the wigs jewish women started using when headscarves got out of fashion in the west was that of a compromise. They did not draw negative attention as the scarves, but they looked plain and was therefore still a sign of modesty. They used to have a bun, not the wig-hair let out. Don´t know how it is nowadays, maybe some get them in every hairstyle and colour and belive it is more modest than changing your own hairstyle? But when this practice begun the women still wanted to look plain, though not be seen as too old-fashioned, therefore litterally hiding the fact that they where covering their hair.
After looking at the video, I got somewhat of an understanding of this jewish woman. Her husband was not practicing and obviously not comftarble with the compromise of a wig eather. So they decided she should by a wig that looked like her natural haircolour. That way nobody could tell if it was her oown hair sticking out under the wig, so she was satisfied. What a brilliant idéa! In other words covering her hair with something that could have been her own cut off hair... Hm.. Maybe more like awkward.. I would simply call it a total waste of money. Whatever floats her boat, I guess.
But it´s first now when she´s older and you can see gray hair sticking out under the blonde hair flow that I would call it immodest. Before she got gray hair it was not even a change in her look when she put it on and now when she´s got loads of wrinkels it looks like she´s dying her hair blonde to look many years younger. Sorry, but I have to say I feel it´s a mockery to the modest, religious headcovering when she talks about it as such. And also WHY does she wears a snood indoors with her family but this blonde wig only when she´s walking the streets?? It makes no sense that she looks plain only when with her own family and glamourous for everybody else. I get the feeling her husband is one of those who wants to brag about having a beautiful wife and showing her off!
Sorry for the rant, but my haircolour is quite close to the colour of her wig and though I never let it down for a long time before starting covering it, I got loads of guys complimenting me on it. Even many guys who I really did not want that kind of attention from. I think readhaired women would benefit the most from covering their hair where I live, because they are even more popular then blondes amongst "the bad guys". there are offcourse guys who preferes brunettes, but for some reason they tend to treat the girls they attend with more respect. I always thought that was unfair. At several points I even coloured my hair dark brown during my teen years, but it would always wash out to a redblonde shade after a while. My hair just refused to be brown, LOL. One time it even turned from dark purple to a bright dark shade of red! Worst colour ever! Then I stopped colouring my hair. So relieved I´ve found the veil and took it to my heart, so that I can keep it on in peace now:)
Thank you so much, Anonymous, for sharing your point of view!
I was raised in profestante christianity until i started searching scripture and and ancient culture of Yashar'al pre and post Abraham. Converting to the Abary/Hebraic way of belief and life completely set me free. I am not married, yet i embrace the honor of covering in reverence to my Creator. As a black woman raised in historically christian family, setting myself apart to this walk was easy for me, simply because i accepted the truth. I was, and am still met with ridicule and misunderstanding. I have a beautiful head of thick, long hair and a curvy figure. I choose to cover because i know its the righteous thing to do. I appreciate this article and wish that it had delved more into the scriptural basis for covering. Shalum!
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