Tags: Fashion, Topical Concept.
A cockernonnie or cockernonie was an old Scottish women’s hairstyle. It was a gathering up of the hair after a fashion similar to the modern chignon and sometimes called a cock-up. Mr. Kirkton of Edinburgh preaching against cock-ups – of which chignons were the representative in the mid-19th century – said:I have spent all this year preaching against the vanity of women yet I see my own daughter in the kirk even now with as high a ‘cock-up’ as any of you all.