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Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson said he will no longer allow his players to wear snoods.

Snood definition professional#

The fashion was derided by commentators, prompting one journalist to state that 'snoods are the new gloves' in professional football. Though popular for many years with European footballers like Gianluigi Buffon - in the 2010-11 English football Premier League season, a number of high-profile players including Carlos Tevez and Samir Nasri wore snoods.

Although it appears that 'hairnet' has replaced snood as the commonly-used term for hair containment on the head, the term 'beard snood' is still familiar in many food production facilities. Beard snoodĪnother similar garment which is also referred to as a snood is used to cover facial hair when working in environments such as food production. The term "snood" (sometimes "snood-scarf") has been used to describe tubular scarfs since at least the late 1960s. Contemporary hair snoods for Jewish women come in a wide range of colors and designs.Ī Winter Olympics 2010 television broadcast (NBC: February 27, 2010) an on-site interview of a European woman skier wearing a beret headgear with snood expansion at the nape. Since these snoods are designed to cover the hair more than hold it, they are often lined to prevent them from being see-through. Now, women's snoods are commonly worn by married Orthodox Jewish women, according to the religious custom of hair covering see shpitzel. While headgear was not rationed, snoods were favoured, along with turbans and headscarves, in order to show one's commitment to the war effort. At that time, the British government had placed strict rations on the amount of material that could be used in clothing. Snoods became popular again in Europe during World War II. Consequently, they were very different from the snoods of the 1940s. These hairnets were frequently made of very fine material to match the wearer's natural hair colour (see 1860s in fashion - hairstyles and headgear) and worn over styled hair.

Snoods came back into fashion in the 1860s, although the term "snood" remained a European name, and Americans called the item simply a " hairnet" until some time after they went out of fashion in the 1870s. In Scotland and parts of the North of England, a silken ribbon about an inch (2 cm) wide called a snood was worn specifically by unmarried women, as an indicator of their status, until the late 19th or early 20th century. Snoods continued in use in later periods, especially for women working or at home. It was widely used in the Middle Ages for a variety of cloth or net head coverings, including what we would today call hairbands and cauls, as well as versions similar to a modern net snood. The word was first recorded in Old English from sometime around 725. The tubular ear and neck protector used to protect the ears of long-eared or long-haired show dogs is also referred to as a snood. The garment may be worn either pulled down around the neck like a scarf, or pulled up over the hair and lower face, like a hood. In modern times the word also has come to be applied to a tubular neck protector or warmer, often worn by skiers or motorcyclists. Modern hair nets, commonly in use where shed human hair may be undesirable, are often made of microfibre. Historically (and in some cultures still in use today) a small bag-netted, tatted, knitted, crocheted, or knotted (see macrame)-of fine thread, enclosed a bob of long hair on the back of the head or held it close to the nape. A snood sometimes was made of solid fabric, but more often of loosely knitted yarn or other net-like material.

A tighter-mesh band may cover the forehead or crown, then run behind the ears and under the nape of the neck.Ī sack of sorts dangles from this band, covering and containing the fall of long hair gathered at the back. In the most common form the headgear resembles a close-fitting hood worn over the back of the head.

Two women working at a Texas Naval Air Base in 1942, wearing snoodsĪ snood is historically a type of European female headgear, or in modern times a tubular neck scarf.