Winging it: Paris gallery keeps visitors apart with extension hats
Colourful papier-mâché
The colourful papier-mâché hats are modelled on headgear from the Song dynasty, which ruled China between 960 and 1279, with extensions just long enough to keep wearers the one metre (three feet) apart stipulated in France's COVID-19 regulations.
The first Song emperor is said to have ordered his officials to wear winged hats so that they could not gossip without being heard.
Social distancing norms
The visitors of the gallery wear the hats to not only adhere to the social distancing guidelines of the country but to ensure their own safety as well.
Political statement
Some of Dominique Pouzol's creations carry a political message too, painted in the colours of the rainbow is a nod to gay rights.
Chinese students
Students in China are maintaining one hat's difference in order to follow social distancing norms after schools re-opened in the country.
Elementary school kids were spotted donning creative headgear and classrooms passed off as amusement parks in post-pandemic China.
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