Speaking of headscarves being traditional, it’s worth remembering that an old fashioned word in English for a woman’s head scarf is babushka. I don’t know if that word was ever common in the UK, but it was in the US when I was younger.

Significance?

Babushka means grandmother in Russian and some other slavic languages. We named the scarves after the older, non-Muslim immigrant women who used to wear them.

Hmmmmm….