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Who says wearing a hood is a bad idea?

Dear Lorraine,

When I started wearing swedish hoodies I was pity fed up and wanted to hide. They hide you very well just leaving a tiny space to see out and totally cover you up. I have taken to wearing the hood up all the time when out side my house. They are long and baggy on me and looks like a burka, but not too heavy so I can wear them all year round.

I was surprised when a middle aged Asian man spoke to me at the tram stop several mornings running. He asked me what I did and why I wore a hooded parka all the time. "Because I like to," I replied. He offered me a part time job helping to sort out the accounts of his business.

Well, it was a strange interview. This man and his veiled wife talked to me and asked me to demonstrate my office skills on a pc. All the time I wore the Swedish parka with the hood tightly done up. Indeed the man had not seen my face at all!

I was offered a job there part time and paying enough to keep me through my degree. I was told I must wear the parka or similar clothes whilst at the office as a condition of my employment. The only other woman working their was their daughter who was also veiled and has become a good friend.
Who says wearing a hood is a bad idea?

To answer some questions.

No I don't wear two swedish parkas at once but do have several. They wash well in the machine. I normally wear a tee shirt and jeans underneath. I wear my hair in tied back the
parka hoods are big enough to fit over.

In olden times some monks wore their cowl hoods up all the time some monasteries. Some monks were in fact lesbian women who wanted to avoid nunneries yet still serve God and hide from the world.

A woman across the street asked me where I got them from and her two teenage girls are now hidden in them all the time.

Clare