1355 Respectable Englishwomen keep their hair covered in public -- but so do others. In order to tell the difference, England's Parliament forbids prostitutes to wear hoods "except reyed or striped of diverse colours, nor furre, but garments reversed or turned the wrong side outward." More pious women wear veils and "wimples," fabric draped under the chin, including Geoffrey Chaucer's "Prioress," whose prim headdress is described in the prologue to the Canterbury Tales: "ful semely hir wimpel pinched was...." Headdresses get wilder through the 15th century, featuring jewels, horns, and other oddities from France and the newly-conquered Constantinople.