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Amish Kapps

posted 16 years ago by kerrytrout
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The director should have done more homework when it came to dressing the cast. Amish women do not have aprons with ties. Aprons are pinned onto the dress. The kitchen scene showed Annie wearing an apron with a tie.

She also wore a blue bandana on her head, which an Amish women wouldn't wear. They wear kapps, the muslin white caps that tie loosely under the chin. Babies wear white ones as well, and in the movie it showed a baby wearing a black one, which is actually reserved for teenaged girls.

They should have made an effort to have the actors talk with the Pennsylvania Dutch (Deutch) accent.

[–] orthohawk 9 years ago

Each Amish community has different rules for different aspects of their lives. I live 15 miles from the Kalona, IA community (where this movie is supposed to be set (of course, under a fictional name)) and in my drives thru the countryside, I see many Amish women in their yards (gardening, hanging laundry, etc) wearing blue bandanas and kerchiefs. The muslin Kapps are for wear into town, or easy labor. In Missouri, I lived very near an an Amish, and the only times I ever saw the black kapps were in church services

What accent? Most of the Amish I have encountered here speak English with only a very slight accent if anyl.....the younger ones have virtually no accent.