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... and Rosie the Riveter was most often shown sporting a 'do rag'.
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there's even botanical lingo: peels  It just occurred to me that it is common lingo 'round these parts to say dishrag and washrag, instead of dishcloth and washcloth. I wonder if that explains the rag part.
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Man! That rag sho' doo be fancier than an ol' bandana!
Looks like a good site- foster in glove. I mean, fostering love.
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I first ran into these in the early 1960s when I was working in Arlington, VA. There were several gay black men who worked at this hospital, and they wore do rags to and from work because of their (I assume) pomaded hair. Jimmy explained to this poor uneducated white boy that these sort of skull caps kept their hair from picking up dirt while riding the bus back and fortth to work and kept the moisture in the hair stuff working. Each of them would spend four or five minutes carefully reshaping their hair after taking off the do rag.
I always assumed that the do was short for hairdo.
TEd
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