(Exhibition text in English, referring to a QR code in the exhibition)
The kerchief was a development of the medieval square headcloth. Unmarried women, who were not obliged to cover their hair, wore cloth-covered circlets called piglockar.
Wedge caps occurred all over Scania, together with leather caps and fur-lined woollen caps. Felt hats were worn on special occasions. Initially the hats had round crowns and wide brims, but later came to resemble the high hats of fashionable dress.
Clogs were worn as working footwear but also as galoshes or overshoes, sometimes with two heels. Leather shoes, boots, and later ankle-boots were worn mainly on special occasions.
Stockings knitted of natural-coloured wool were introduced to southern Scania in the seventeenth century. Men’s stockings were almost always white, while women wore black stockings in the south and blue ones in northern Scania.
