I hasten to say that I understand that enslaved Black women couldn't deck themselves with the headwraps that their ancestors wore in West Africa. I understand that there was a utilitarian purpose for those scarfs that 19th century and earlier Black women wore.

And I also know about the history of the tignon that Creole women were forced to wear:

"...tignon (also spelled and pronounced tiyon) is a series of headscarves or a large piece of material tied or wrapped around the head to form a kind of turban that resembles the West African gélé. It was worn by Creole women in Louisiana beginning in the Spanish colonial period, and continuing to a much lesser extent to the present day.

This headdress was the result of sumptuary laws passed in 1785 under the administration of Governor Esteban Rodriguez Miró. Called the tignon laws, they prescribed and enforced appropriate public dress for female gens de couleur in colonial society. At this time in Louisiana history, women of color vied with white women in beauty, dress, ostentation and manners. Many of them had become the placées of white French and Spanish Creole men, and this incurred the jealousy and anger of their wives, mothers, sisters, daughters and fiancées. One complaint that found currency with the authorities was that white men, in pursuing flirtations or liaisons, sometimes mistook and accosted women of the elite for the light-skinned, long-haired, but mixed-race women.

As a result, Governor Miró decreed that women of color and black women, slave or free, should cover their hair and heads with a knotted headdress and refrain from "excessive attention to dress" themselves in jewels or feathers to maintain class distinctions. But the women who were targets of this decree were inventive and imaginative. They decorated tignons with their jewels, ribbons, or by using the finest colored materials with which to wrap their hair. In other words, "[t]hey effectively re-interpreted the law without technically breaking the law"[1]--and they continued to be pursued by men"....

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That Wikipedia page includes a drawing of a woman wearing a tignon.

Furthermore, I'm aware that Black women in the Caribbean made an art form out of wearing head wraps. I've read in some printed book or magazine that the different ways that the women wore their headwraps in some Caribbean country meant that they were married, or that they were wsingle or the style conveyed some other message.

All of this to say, {excuse me if I brag} but we Black people sure do know how to style!