Russian women always were very elegant. Head wear Russian women is very varied content and forms. Hat (cap), cap (cap) (knitting, fur, Kika (Kichko), handkerchief, scarf, shawl (shawl), cap (cap), veil. – is far incomplete list of hats, lay scattered Russian women.This paper deals with linguistic units, which are the main types of symbols Women’s hats in the context of Russian brides culture. This paper is a continuation of the analysis of linguistic culture phenomenon of ‘Russian headdress’.For a long period in Russia became a tradition according to which women had to conceal her hair, because it was thought that women’s hair had magical powers. It is no accident female goddess in the legends and myths of the Slavs depicted bareheaded and shaggy. At Slavs, including the eastern, “formed a range of ideas associated with the hair. It was believed that the hair lies a magical life force, flowing girlish braids can bewitch her future husband, while a woman with uncovered head can bring trouble, damage to people, livestock, crops. During a storm it can kill the thunder, as it is for beliefs, it becomes an easy prey and a receptacle of evil forces, which are aimed thunderous boom. Our ancestors had countless superstitions, amulets associated with the hair.That is why a woman’s headdress in Russia has always been not only an essential part of folk costume, but also had symbolic meaning. Headgear was a symbol of integrity: to show “bareheaded” was indecent, but to discredit a woman, it was enough to tear off her head-dress. It was the worst insult. Hence the ‘goof’, then there is a ‘disgrace’ and phraseologies remove scarf (hat), which means (obsolete) ‘public shame, shame anyone, anyone expressing. Woman’s headdress served as the original card, on it you can find out who its owner: the area from which she, her age, marital status (a woman, a widow or woman), social affiliation. By headdress could easily distinguish between married women from the girls of marriageable age. Maiden scythe and forehead usually twined tape or bandage. Often, the head of a girl wearing a crown – a hoop made of leather or birch bark, covered with expensive gold cloth. The crown could have teeth – triangular or quadrangular. But once the girl got married, she wore a special hat, which she had no right to withdraw, even in their own home. A married Russian women wore a headdress, symbolically associated with the sky – this is clearly saying “bird” names: forty, kokoshnik (derived from Kokoschka, chicken), Kichko (duck) and decorations on the dress in the form of the sun and birds, symbolizing the rain. The most common headgear was forty – it were a woman in southern Russia until the beginning of the twentieth century.
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