I had a great aunt that always wore a hair cap or hair net.  It wasn't until
I was in junior high that I found out her hair was past her waist!  And it
was so beautiful!  I asked her why she always wore it up in a cap and she
said that was the way she was raised.  When I pressed her on the issue she
finally remembered that her mother instructed her to do so in order to keep
it out of places and to help keep the hair clean.

If it were up in a cap she didn't have to wore about it falling the food as
she was cooking.  Or she didn't have to worry about it shedding onto the
clothes that she was ironing and it burning onto the clothes.  She was even
advised to keep her hair bound at night so when she got married it would
disturb her husband less in his sleep.

Now, I'll say I'm not sure if these are the real reasons or just something
that my great grandmother would have told my great aunt to get my great aunt
to stop pestering her about wearing a cap all the time.  I'll admit from
what I know of my great aunt and what I've been told about my great
grandmother that its highly likely that's the case.  However, some of the
reasons do seem to have some logic behind them.

Heather Marie Wells

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