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[lapsa]

"Прости, что я писал тебе глупости, но мозги у меня растрепались, выпали шпильки: я какой-то простомозговый, как бывают люди простоволосые…"
Владимир Набоков - Вере, 16.01.1924 г.

Comments

[cmcmck]

I am amused at the thought of Nabokov using hairpins! :o)

[lapsa]

In his youth, he could have grown his hair long! But in adulthood, he probably wouldn't have needed hairpins.)

[cmcmck]

I have mid back length hair and don't think I have ever used one! :o)

[gwendraith]

I wonder what he meant by "simple hair"?

[lapsa]

I've never used hairpins either. But recently I watched a film about a Swedish female artist, "Hilma," and I loved the hairstyles so much that I wanted to do one myself.

[lapsa]

This ancient word means "without a headgear." For married peasant women, appearing without a headscarf was considered downright indecent. To this day, the Russian language still uses the word "опростоволоситься", meaning "to have found oneself in an awkward situation."

[cmcmck]

If I want my hair up I tend to use hair slides and clips.

[gwendraith]

That's interesting, thank you!