Headwear
The headwear to be seen around the world can be functional, spontaneous, hierarchical, outrageous or driven by fashion. Here are a few examples mainly from East London:
In contrast with the functional woolen hat that keeps the man on Brick Lane warm, Solly (below) has a more fashionable fedorah hat. He is staring out across the bottom of Hanbury Street.
The man and woman (below) would probably consider themselves undressed if they went out without their hats. No doubt the woman above would feel undressed without her Burka.
The two women crossing Vallance Road in Whitechapel are wearing the Jilbab which is a cloak worn in public. The cloak continues into a head scarfe.
Headwear with a splash of leaf design at the entrance of Whitechapel station.
The characters above and below add a mark of eccentricity to the collection. The red shawl seems slightly out of place as does the attire of the boater hat on the old lady crossing Vallance Road; it’s as if she has been transported from the Whitechapel of the 1920’s.
Below we have a man wearing a turban buying tobacco from a man wearing a cap.
The lady below is wearing a functional plastic head scarf, popular a few decades ago. They could be wrapped into a small ball and used for raining emegencies.