[lastchance]

Practical reasons. Keep it out of the way and keep it clean. Also I don’t think hairstyles changed much going into later Medieval times and illustrations from that time show women often wore it plaited. She probably also may have worn a wimple for the same reasons.

I think the artist was more interested in showing the bone structure and facial features than what her hair would have looked like.

[SteveH]

hmmmm, yeahhh

thanks