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Plain Dressing Women's Head Coverings

Some plain women, but not all, wear a bonnet or some other covering over their cap or prayer covering. Black is the most common color, with blue a common option for unbaptized young women. While black is the most common color for bonnets, white is the most common color for head coverings. Still, some groups have unmarried women wear black caps, and a few have married women wear black caps. The ties on these caps are also significant, with some groups abandoning ties altogether, others requiring them but wearing them long and loose, and other groups using the ties to secure the cap to the head. In some groups black ties are worn after marriage. Hutterite women wear distinctive polka-dotted kerchiefs tied under the chin, over a close-fitting cap.

Traditionally, Quakers have worn bonnets ranging in color from black to gray-green to fawn. The caps have been white.

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quaker head coverings caps bonnets plain women prayer covering kerchiefs
quaker head coverings caps bonnets plain women prayer covering kerchiefs
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Epistle 368
1681

"Be Kind and Courteous"

AND all that will know the right Way, or High-Way, or Path to the Church of God, 2 Thess. I. must walk in the Light, which is the Life in Christ, and that will guide them to Christ, the way to God, the Head of the Church, the Rock and Foundation of God that stands sure.

And now, Dear Friends, my Desires are that you may live in the Love of God, and in the Unity of His Spirit, which is the Bond of Peace, in which you will all be Kind and Courteous one to another, and so the GOd of all ...

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