Comments on: Toodles to Turbans

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:47:40 +0000

as a ‘stylish muslim woman’ myself I can’t see myself, or anyone else regardless of religious inclination wearing these. Even my grandma would laugh at me. That said, I thought the turban wouldn’t translate either. But I love mine and I love the way others have managed to pull it off… Still, I can’t see how wearing a big cloth on your head that makes you look as if you spent the winter picking potatoes with your cold, red fingers, will ever make any headway.

By: Steven.

Steven. — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:15:27 +0000

Next season’s must have hair accessory: the do-rag.

By: uh

uh — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:18:54 +0000

Glenn- yes and i have seen so many women wear so many things that are outdated

By: Glenn

Glenn — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:27:12 +0000

The turban trend is over already? Ooookay. Because I saw SO many women wearing them.

By: JD

JD — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 03:22:33 +0000

As a fluent speaker, I can tell you all that in Russian, the word “babushka” means both scarf and grandmother. If you pronounce it “BAbushka” it is grandmother and “baBUshka” is scarf. We associate them together because we think of little old Russian ladies wearing these scarves– a babushka wearing a babushka.

By: katie

katie — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:43:17 +0000

Yeah…It’s kind of like how “chai” just means tea, but in America, a chai latte is understand to contain cinnamon, vanilla, cardamon, etc.
Some words just mean something different here. It’s a cultural thing.

By: hilary

hilary — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:59:17 +0000

It’s sort of a Little Edie/Eponine from Les Miz hybrid….”On my own, pretending he’s beside me”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:25:07 +0000

Miss Jeffrey, anonymous is not one person it is many people who are too lazy to fill out the name/email address/URL boxes! And I do not this it is common knowledge that babushka means grandmother… maybe if you are of Russian descent but otherwise, babushka is the thing on your head.
I like the turban much better, but maybe this will grown on my as the turban did!

By: jess

jess — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:23:06 +0000

who cares about christine ebersol? what about little edie? that shit was a skirt on her head! A SKIRT!

By: Jgirl

Jgirl — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:39:45 +0000

i loved to wear babushkas when i was two and i would love to wear them now

By: Miss Jeffrey

Miss Jeffrey — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:38:58 +0000

well, considering that I’m not caucasian….babushka wasn’t used every day in my house in bklyn. I didn’t hear the word much until I started ‘coming out.’

By: liz

liz — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:11:44 +0000

i don’t think it’s that uncommon knowledge that babushka means grandmother… i’ve known that since i was a kid, but maybe that’s because i grew up in brooklyn.

By: Miss Jeffrey

Miss Jeffrey — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:35:33 +0000

OK….I am now convinced that anonymous, is like ‘Anna Wintour’ or something! HE/SHE knows everything!!!!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:29:18 +0000

why do people call them “babushkas”?? “babushka” is “grandmother” in russian and the person who traditionally wears a scarf like the ones featured above and NOT the name of the garment!

By: Miss Jeffrey

Miss Jeffrey — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:25:12 +0000

I guess the beret is coming soon too.