FIFA thinks snoods could be a danger to players' necks

[Victor Steinbok]

WWII is certainly good dating, but OED has the word going back to early
700s, which is one of the earliest I've ever looked up. And, yes, the
black clothing item on the neck is the "snood" in question. But it's not
a neckerchief. It's more like a tube of stretchy fabric (neck gaiter),
somewhat resembling headgear worn by mostly young female joggers
(although also by some undetermined number of males and nonjoggers) back
in the 1990s. Perhaps that was the connection that lead to naming the
item a "snood". Perhaps not. I've never heard that particular headgear
being referred to as "snood".

VS-)

On 2/6/2011 8:33 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Damien Hall<damien.hall at york.ac.uk>
> wrote (edited):
>
>> 'snood' sort of hair-net
> This word was commonly used with roughly that meaning - a kind of
> not-necessarily-net-like doodad worn by women on their heads to keep
> their (natural) hair in place - During The War (WWII) and later.
>
> I assume that, in the illustration at the URL provided, the "snood" is
> that neckerchief-looking cloth that's somewhat around the model's
> neck. I've never seen anything like that before.
> --
> -Wilson
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