Great Moments in Scottish Fashion
By Izzy
Displaying an exotic turban, the philosopher David Hume was clearly not afraid to zhuzh things up every now and then.
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April 7th, 2006 at 2:32 pm
As you can see from this picture of Thomas
Reid, turbanage was all the rage in 18th-century Scottland. (It stemmed from a prevalent, but only semi-justified, worry about an imminent, massive influx of Sikhs.)
April 10th, 2006 at 10:19 am
The exotic headgear was also quite popular with French philosophes at the same time: Voltaire
Perhaps it was an attempt to keep the head warm while thinking big thoughts in cold climates.