Who are the 'scarf' women?

[jools1]

There are a group of women and girls who all seem to dress the same, all have long hair with no fringe, and they wear a small triangular head scarf, often blue.

They seem to be from a religious group but which one?

[sglazier]

They could be members of the Plymouth Brethren.

 

http://www.plymouthbrethren.com/

[Haggisdj]

Sound like Land Girls to me.

[lilyfrog]

who are land girls??

[woofgang]

click and learn http://www.homesweethomefront.co.uk/web_pages/hshf_wla_pg.htm

[smudge]

The Quakers?

[smudge]

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.quakerjane.com/images/plain_dress/quaker1900.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.quakerjane.com/spirit.friends/plain_dress-quaker.html&h=252&w=224&sz=17&tbnid=s6nK1LtAFU8J:&tbnh=106&tbnw=94&hl=en&start=119&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dquakers%2B%26start%3D100%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN

[Peter Pedant]

Do they have particularly high foreheads? perhaps they are from the Village of the Damned - or Midwich Cuckoos

[mystress]

smudge,

I am a Quaker and I don't dress like that,although we might have done in the past!

The Plymouth Bretheren( an offshoot 19thc,of the Quakers) may dress like this,but I don't know enough about them to say.

[ursula62]

They are most likely the Plymouth Brethren as suggested earlier.

There is a big Brethren centre near where I live and we often see the worshippers attending. The women never wear trousers and all females have long hair, brushed back and covered with a headscarf. I believe the women are not permitted to cut their hair.

Of course, there may be other Christian sects that also wear headscarves!

[mydogsandme]

yes I've seen them from time to time in our town. They're not land girls though!! They have young children with them  in headscarves too and they all seem to have really long hair -have you noticed?

[mydogsandme]

sorry, just noticed you said they had long hair- it's getting late!

[Pinotage]

I've seen the same. Sometimes a man is preaching in the town centre and they're hanging around there. Their head scarves are small triangles of blue cloth. But I don't know which sect they are - sorry, but I've often wondered.

[Jules001]

definitely Plymouth Brethren,we have a local meeting place where they all hang out

[Morrisonker]

Presuming Plymouth is just pasrt of the name, we have them up in Aberdeen too, just a handful, it's always the same family I see in town.

[smudge]

Mystress - I was hoping to find a more up-to-date images link to the Quakers, but couldn't find one!

I wouldn't imagine that anyone would dress like that today - so apologies if that's the impression it gave!

The only reason I suggested Quakers, is because there were a couple of girls at our Granddaughter's middle school, who wore blue triangle head scarves, so did the Mum. When my Granddaughter & her friends asked why they wore these, they were told they were Quakers.

[jools1]

Well there's a lot more responses than I expected!

I wonder whether they could be Quakers as I know there was once (probably still is) a large Quaker community here in West Hertfordshire. I hadn't thought about it before.

[Co-co]

& they all seem to drive people carriers....???