Then and now
Dec. 14th, 2014 09:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauradi7dwAbout a month ago, we were in London. I mentally composed a long list of stuff that happened, with photographs, and thoughts about repeated travel to a place, but I never typed it. Maybe some day. Just this one subtopic now. It seemed to me that there was more hijab diversity in London than there is here, but maybe I'm not paying enough attention. Several times I saw one and thought "How beautiful" and also that it was really familiar, in a throwback to medieval European headwear kind of way. When I was rummaging through old cards in the attic the other day, I found the partcard version of this portrait
Detail available here, including the ability to zoom in or out
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/robert-campin-a-woman
The ones I saw on the Tube etc that I admired were not made out of that kind of fabric, but the draping was similar, including the pin placement, sometimes. If we saw her on the subway today, would we just think that she is Muslim, rather than a time traveler? (the women I saw were wearing it with jeans and long-sleeved shirts and jackets, I think, not a 15th century gown).
Detail available here, including the ability to zoom in or out
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/robert-campin-a-woman
The ones I saw on the Tube etc that I admired were not made out of that kind of fabric, but the draping was similar, including the pin placement, sometimes. If we saw her on the subway today, would we just think that she is Muslim, rather than a time traveler? (the women I saw were wearing it with jeans and long-sleeved shirts and jackets, I think, not a 15th century gown).
