Shpitzel

a tichel is just a kercheif. a shpitzel is a whole contraption.

a tichel is like a kerchief, just something to cover your head most litvish/yeshivish women wear one of some sort, however a shpitzel is worn only by chassidish or maybe yerushalmi women, it is a peice of shaitel that sticks out in the front from under a tichel so that it could look like there is some hair going on there…. looks as if she is wearing a full shaitel, but the hair is really only in the front like by the bangs area… hope this helps!!!

a shpitzel is either with a tichel or with a hat the main thing is that the bangs in the front aren’t hair its silk

what are u ppl talking about, isn’t a shpitzel the turban like thing? made outta towel type cloth?

I went to visit someone once in sea gate, at the kimpenturen place, which had 99 percent chassidish ppl, and 4 litvish ladies ( one of them my sis) anyway everyone there had turbans, and they also had them matching their kids, if they had a girl they wore a pink turban, if a boy it was blue! lol it was funny, and we were the entertainment

Shpitzels are a way of having a second head covering. Shpitzel by definition is actually the thing that goes under the scarf.

Someone mentioned a scarf with hair in the front. That is actually called a “fr-o-nt” must be said with the willi accent. I have a few friends who wear shpitzlech..

We often had conversations about them being more of an eye-sore than a tzniusdik head covering..

crdle, no…no..no..what those ladies in Seagate were wearing is only for inside the house, and its called a turban. Its not for going on the street with.

A shpitzel is not the scarf part of the wrapping on a chassidish lady..its the front part that looks like hair color.

First you put a shpitzel, which is usually the color of what your hair color was, brownish, or dirty blondish or dark dark brown. Usually made very talented and specially by a shpitzelmacher out of real silk threads. From far it looks like a front tucked in neatly. Or if you’re even more frum and machmir you don’t wear from thread like material, but its just rather a brown cloth that from far gives the look of a front.

Then on top of the shpitzel goes the pretty silk scarf delicately and neatly folded and pinned up. There are different ways of tying it.

They cost about $140 and the silk scarf can cost around $260

After a few years you have to replace the shpitzel as it gets old and used looking.

Isn’t it more pointy?

a shpitzl is a sponge covered with threads worn at the front of the head – top of forehead, with a tichel or hat on top of it covering the rest of the head. An easy to picture description of it would be a frankfurter. (yes it does resemble a frank, especially the ones worn with a sock on top of it)

Poster- sorry. I’m very Chassidish but far from a Shpitzel.

Being Chassidish has zero to do with a Shpitzel. A Shpitzel is a sign of extreme Frumkeit.

smartcookie, you dont have to wear a shpitzel to know what its about.