In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jean Nathan
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> An Alice band is usually an elasticated ring put around
>the head (forehead and under the back of the hair) to hold the hair back.
Except here in the Midlands we've always called that a headband!
>Now more commonly rigid and
Quite right Jane. An Alice band is usually an elasticated ring put around
the head (forehead and under the back of the hair) to hold the hair back.
Now more commonly rigid and shaped like a tiara, but worn with the pints
down behind the ears.
Jean in Poole
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Sounds likely - probably related in etymology to our "Jane Banks
ponytail", the family name for the gathering of the front hair into a
small ponytail at the crown of the head, above the rest of the hair
left loose - from the Disney Mary Poppins movie.
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