Traditional Women's Hairstyles in Northern Vietnam - Traditional Women's Hairstyles in Northern Vietnam

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Source: vietnam-beauty - 2009/12/28, 04:01 GMT+7 - Total view: 886

Traditional Women's Hairstyles in Northern Vietnam

Along with the “ao tu than”, traditional girls and women in Northern Vietnam are often charming with a “khan dong” and a “khan mo qua”.

The“khan dong” is a black piece of fabric wrapped around a girl's longhair so that it forms a tube around the hair. The fabric-entubed hairis wrapped around the crown of the head. Usually, the girl's hair is alittle bit longer than the “khan dong”, forming a skinny, wispyponytail sticking out of the “khan dong”. This ponytail is leftdangling down from the “khan dong” on one side of the head. TheVietnamese call this hairstyle “toc duoi ga” because the ponytailresembles a rooster's tail (“toc duoi ga” means rooster-tailed hair).For formal occasions, Vietnamese girls often used “khan dong” made ofblack velvet.

Insteadof the rooster-tailed hair, they would pin the extra hair down andcover their heads with a “khan mo qua”, meaning crow's beak

kerchief.A “khan mo qua” is a black, square piece of heavy fabric. It is foldedin half into a triangle and worn over the “khan dong” to cover thehair. The long side of the triangle is placed above the forehead whilethe two corner of the long side are tied at the nape of the neck (likethe American bandana and kerchiefs). Because the “khan mo qua” is madeof heavy, stiff fabric, the long side the of the triangle, or thefolded edge, sticks out in front of the forehead in a point, sharp as acrow's beak. “Khan mo qua” is not just a simple kerchief on the girl’shead, it is really the art of beautification that a Kinh Bac girlshould know. Someone used to sing:

Look you with a “khan mo qua”,
Make me miss you so much...
Look you with a “khan mo qua”,
Make me so admired for your beauty...

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