Amish Women

One of the most obvious things about Amish women is that they wear bonnets of some sort. Mrs C, shown, lives in Indiana, where married women wear white bonnets; other communities married women wear black bonnets.

In this community, all the females, from the smallest to the oldest, never cut their hair. They pull their hair back tightly in a bun, which is the reason the particular prayer bonnet Mrs. C is wearing is preferred here. It accommodates the hair bun and is easily secured to the head. The smallest girls don't always wear their bonnets when they're home playing outside, but their hair is always put in a bun. When they go anywhere the bonnets are put on their heads.

Mrs. C wears her bonnet ALL THE TIME, when she's working in house, in the garden, everywhere she goes. I doubt she wears one to bed, but I don't ask, and in unheated homes, wearing a warm hat to bed helps tremendously.

Wearing a bonnet or headcovering is a very traditional thing for women to do and it has very good reasons according to scripture, which I will discuss further in this lense.