Toodles to Turbans

Jun 28, 2007 @ 1:57pm

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The death knell for the turban trend has sounded.

Funny, since Vogue has engaged in full-on turban mania for the past few months. Remember the photo of Sasha in a turban, followed by Rachel Roy and Liz Goldwyn as her disciples? Try to forget it - the magazine has officially MOVED ON.

You may not have thought it was possible, but they've found a trend to hype that could be even weirder:

The babushka.

As in, that thing your Russian grandmother wore on her head that looked like an oversize napkin. Or the one you wore in the chorus of your 10th grade production of Fiddler on the Roof. Now it's on the runway.

Will this trend have more legs than the turban?

We're thinking possibly:

Maybe the babushkas will be adopted by stylish Muslim women, who could re-drape them as hijabs.

Or maybe we'll be reaching for one on a really bad hair day.

--ANNA FIELDING GRIGGS

posted by Meredith

Jun 28, 2007 2:16PM

Doesn't that remind you of what Christine Ebersole wears in Grey Gardens?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JDS8tkdT_-E

posted by brendastarlet

Jun 28, 2007 2:23PM

Maybe plastic see-through rain bonnets will be next, and then the papparazzi will be flocking around my mother.

posted by brendastarlet

Jun 28, 2007 2:23PM

Maybe plastic see-through rain bonnets will be next, and then the papparazzi will be flocking around my mother.

posted by Miss Jeffrey

Jun 28, 2007 2:25PM

I guess the beret is coming soon too.

posted by guest

Jun 28, 2007 2:29PM

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!

posted by Miss Jeffrey

Jun 28, 2007 2:35PM

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

posted by liz

Jun 28, 2007 3:11PM

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.

posted by Miss Jeffrey

Jun 28, 2007 3:38PM

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.'

posted by Jgirl

Jun 28, 2007 3:39PM

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

posted by jess

Jun 28, 2007 4:23PM

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

posted by guest

Jun 28, 2007 4:25PM

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!

posted by hilary

Jun 28, 2007 4:59PM

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

posted by katie

Jun 28, 2007 5:43PM

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.

posted by JD

Jun 28, 2007 10:22PM

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.

posted by Glenn

Jun 29, 2007 9:27AM

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

posted by uh

Jun 29, 2007 10:18AM

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

posted by Steven.

Jun 29, 2007 12:15PM

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

posted by guest

Jun 29, 2007 12:47PM

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.