FIFA thinks snoods could be a danger to players' necks

[Damien Hall]

Victor wrote about snoods in football / soccer:

>No, they are not discussing hair nets still popular with Ultra-Orthodox
>Jewish women to hold their wigs in place. Somehow the "snood" was
>transformed to represent a neck gaiter.
>
>Wiki, of course, has this angle covered. Print dictionaries and their
>on-line incarnations are behind the times... At this rate, the trend may
>dissipate before they recover.

I'm not sure; they were also around in UK fashion in the 1980s, though I'm
not sure they've been around constantly since then. See here, for example:

http://j.mp/UKSnood

In fact, until Victor's mention of hair-nets, this was the only definition
I had for 'snood'. I see from the OED that it has a long history as a word
for that sort of hair-net, but I'm a child of the '80's!

Damien

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