In yesterday's post we looked at a turban-wearing icon, so let's start a new week with a vintage turban by Schiaparelli that became very popular in the US in the '40s after an Army Captain, Sidney Williams, brought it back from Paris as a preset to his wife. In the States it was sold by Nan Duskin, of Philadelphia, an internationally known boutique that dressed the city's high society.
Being by Schiap, this turban had something peculiar about it: it was possible to wear it like a turban, tilted on the right and with the loose ends wrapped around the neck, creating a sort of scarf, or like Schiaparelli did in this black and white picture taken in 1944 by Cecil Beaton, who managed to hightlight the optical power of the striped white and pink fabric with his clever use of lights and shadows. In this case the turban, knotted on the top of the head with the two loose ends hanging down, looked a bit more like a scarf wrapped simply wrapped around the wearer's head. It may have been designed in the '40s, but Schiap's turban wouldn't look out of place on a beach in our times and in this sweltering hot summer.
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