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The Portuguese were the primary fashion influence. There is one interesting difference--the Azorean hood. The Azorean Hood or ‘Capote e Capelo,’ is a traditional garment worn in the Azores by women until the 1930s. The origins of the style are unclear. Some attribute it to Flemish settlers. With the increase in marine activity settlers and traders from Flanders as well as Genoa, Britain, and France came to the Azores in addition to people from mainland Portugal (15th-16th centuries). The result was a blend of cultures contributing to some distinctive traditions and customs. Azoean Hood was a long, dark cloak but most notably with a huge hood. The result was a destinctive silhouette. It is said that it was to protect people from sometimes harsh and unpredictable Atlantic weather. These hooded cloaks were done in thick, durable materials to protect from the Atlantic storms. The Azorean hood was usually done in dark electric blue. They were mostly worn by adult women, but some girls also wore them. None other than Mark Twain provided a fashion assessment." In Mark Twain’s book Innocents Abroad (1869), he makes a ‘fashion review’ of the Azorean Hood he encountered on his travels. "Here and there in the doorways we saw women with fashionable Portuguese hoods on. This hood is of thick blue cloth, attached to a cloak of the same stuff, and is a marvel of ugliness. It stands up high, and spreads abroad, and is unfathomably deep. It fits like a circus tent, and a woman's head is hidden away in it like the man’s who prompts the singers from his tin shed in the stage of an opera .... ...a woman can’t go within eight points of the wind with one of them on; she has to go before the wind or not at all." 【Twain】
Twain, Mark. Inocent's Abroad.
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