Nowadays the conventional restraint in the community, the unwritten law of manners and customs into which the traditional costumes had been embedded with their many and accurate graduations for happiness and grief, for working days and Sundays, for the festivals in the ecclesiastical year and the heydays of life is no more binding. Above all the religious tradition concedes a place of honour to the traditional costume and a function during its highest feastdays.

Crowns, caps and wreaths, most times worn by unmarries girls and sometimes by men, had been in use all over the world within living memory. Nearly every region uses the color red either in the headgear or in the cap underneath the crown. We don’t know anything about the reasons for building big head decorations. Mostly it had been a symbol of power for leaders and maybe the people tried to imitate them. The red colour is a symbol of fertility and sometimes for virginity in nearly every region of the world.

The materials for the head decorations are ranging from natural flower wreaths (Hawaii, Tahiti etc) to artificial flower wreaths (Germany, Brazil etc) up to extravagant crowns made of wire and little brass plates (Norway, Austria, Germany etc), hollow pearls (Switzerland etc) and other glittering artificial materials (nowadays Indian cultures etc) and all kinds of caps. The amount of curious and outstanding creations for the head wirthin the different cultures can be continued as many as you like.

The pictures below will give you a little insight: