[NRx]

Russian winters are cold. But in the Orthodox Church women are generally expected to have their heads covered when in church and they are discouraged from wearing makeup.

[cherry]

several decades ago in the Catholic church girls and women were required to wear something on their heads...a hat, often a small lacy doily would do....the nuns in school would keep several handy for the girls that forgot theirs on Mass day, and she kept ties in a box for the boys that forgot to wear them.....

quaint old times....wish they were here....