[MrB]

I suppose ‘shopping a headscarf would have been too much?

[Red Badger]

Too difficult. Easier to just get rid of them.
Or maybe they thought it was an improvement..............

[heartwood]

Scarf isn’t enough. It’s the potential for physical contact that is bad. In Lakewood NJ, the mothers waiting with their children for the school bus stand on the opposite corner from the fathers waiting.

I once asked an elderly man staggering from car to car on a 90 degree day if he needed help - he stood bolt upright and staggered down the middle of the street.