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Hilda unknown
Updated Jun 26, 2025
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Sharon Hillis
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05/21/2013
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Probably not bathing caps. Women used to wear these caps over hair curlers, and then go shopping ;) Wish I could help with who they are.
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notl in the 20s and 30s...they might be mob caps...used to protect the hair when cleaning, etc.
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I'm 69 years old and have a very vague memory of my paternal grandmother wearing a mob cap when she did her weekly house cleaning.
Kathy Pinna
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11/04/2014
I remember wearing them over curlers in the 50's/60's - for shopping, etc - but I didn't know that they went that far back for curlers??
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Wearing curlers out shopping was more of a sixties thing - & maybe seventies. Those who mentioned covering their hair when cleaning or cooking for a church supper have it down.
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Yes Nola I agree.. I don't think they shampooed their hair as often as we do now... probably had to stay clean for a while... :)
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I'm sure you're all probably right about covering the hair for cleaning instead of curlers. :)
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when the teased hairstyles came in I wrapped my head in toilet paper for the night!!
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yes ladies these are mob caps, Women used them to keep their hair out of food when they cooked as well as when they cleaned, I checked with some very elderly ladies and they confirmed this, Actually no lady went out with curlers in my town of Victoria BCV
Allis Davis
36 favorites
11/04/2014
Now a days, it is wearing their pj's to Walmart.
Sharon Hofer
13 favorites
11/04/2014
Maybe they were keeping their hair clean while they were out in the woods. The caps look functional; not fashionable.
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The one on the left had some perky boobs...just saying
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This is actually where I live and have a cabin on a lake in Washington County. My mother grew up there and her mother's name was Hilda and they lived on White Bear Lake. I will dig! Mom was born in 1930. This could easily be part of her neighborhood. Or her mother's friends. Cool.
Mary Jane Perez Cornielle
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02/19/2015
Let us know if you discover any information, after you finish digging!
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My guess these women were involved in some kind of factory work or group food preparation in which they would cover their hair for cleanliness sake. The woman on the left wears a long apron, and the second from the right is wearing a pinafore type apron, so I am guessing they stopped from their work to pose. :) I think the one on the far left wears a corset, while the other three are not.
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These look like the "dust caps' my grgrandmother used to wear when she was cleaning or doing any dirty work..sometimes she wore little wooden rollers under them so her hair would like nice when she removed them..she had long white hair..women did NOT wash their hair every or week back then. she was born in 1868 and died in 1953..she gave up the dust caps well before that time.
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Grandma Annie would never have worn one of these shopping or even on the front porch..it was strictly for cleaning and keeping dirt and dust out of her hair..every afternoon about 2 PM she took a sponge bath ..tidied her hair ..wore a clean house dress and ironed or sewed until about 4....then made dinner for her boarders. back up at 4 A m to start the day . Hers looked like the one second from right.
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this is just what ladies looked like back then..they worked hard and although they looked older...they were probably not..maybe in their 30s except for the one on the right...she looks very young and could have been the one next to her's daughter...remember people also started having children early. I have pictures of my grandmothers that looked much like this..the caps were to keep dust and such out of their hair
Mary Ruessing
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In 50's and 60's used to put hair up in curlers with bobby pins, and then cover the head with a net or nylon type cap to cover the head, allowing hair to air-dry, and the head to have a covering...some little caps were a bit 'fancy'...I have some old pix with my hair like that..
Kelly Gray
1 favorite
11/05/2014
Never saw any women in my family wearing these we are all nyers
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