Still In Fashion -- A Breton couple wearing traditional costume. The woman's Coiffe is probably the only traditional headdress still in the course of evolution. The modern trend has been for even greater frills and complication.In Normandy and Brittany the traditional Coiffe, the woman's headdress, is still not out of fashion. It continues to be donned for any special local celebration.The origins of the Coiffe go back to the high conical medieval court headdress and also to the nun's wimple.Later the Coiffe was modified by ideas drawn from characteristic headdress of the 16th. And 17th. Centuries. December 27, 1953. (Photo by Paul Popper, Paul Popper Ltd.).