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To keep your head during sleep.
Does a tall, floppy hat keep your head warmer than something that lays closer to your head?
We have mastered the method of making a post seem sarcastic and sincere at the same time. I don’t even think it’s conscious anymore.
It gave you more garment to work with on cold nights if you wanted to cover up more of your neck or face.
The long end could be used like a scarf to keep the back of the neck warm.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightcap_(garment)
Wouldn’t a scarf work better as a scarf?
In the Tyburn and Newgate days of British judicial hanging history, the hood used to cover the prisoner’s face was a nightcap supplied by the prisoner, if he could afford it.[3]
WTF
So you had to have a tall, floppy night cap in case you were ever hanged, got it.
protist@mander.xyz 8 months ago
Does a tall, floppy hat keep your head warmer than something that lays closer to your head?
Tikiporch@lemmy.world 8 months ago
We have mastered the method of making a post seem sarcastic and sincere at the same time. I don’t even think it’s conscious anymore.
SippyCup@feddit.nl 8 months ago
It gave you more garment to work with on cold nights if you wanted to cover up more of your neck or face.
apex32@lemmy.world 8 months ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightcap_(garment)
protist@mander.xyz 8 months ago
Wouldn’t a scarf work better as a scarf?
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 8 months ago
WTF
protist@mander.xyz 8 months ago
So you had to have a tall, floppy night cap in case you were ever hanged, got it.