(Plain-dressers wear the coif on the outside nuns wear it under the wimple.) And, of course, babies and toddlers regularly have their ears pinned to their heads with them.
More traditional plain-dressing religious denominations, as well as some Catholic nuns, continue to sport the coif. Women’s coifs held on until the later Renaissance, before being superseded by the mob cap and other headgear. Male coifs went out of fashion in the later medieval period, although their practicality meant they were worn by the working class for longer. There would be quite a bit of oil build-up in between, so keeping it out of your fancy, unwashable hat, or your difficult-to-launder bedsheets, with a coif was very practical. Medieval hygiene wasn’t quite AS bad as the Dung Ages trope indicates, but hair was washed once a week at most, unless you fell head-first into the duck pond or otherwise had to get an enormous amount of filth out of your hair.
As a thank-you to the hundred people who follow me (you like me! you really like me!), please have some coifs for your historical or fantasy Sims (or perhaps modern Sims?) to wear as accessories.Ĭoifs were worn from the medieval period to (for toddlers and infants, with some exceptions) the present. While they were used to help modestly cover the hair, their main purpose in life was to keep hair oils from getting on hats and bedsheets.
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