hi! I recently saw your master post on piper McLean and how (not) to draw her. it was very well written and informative, but I just have one question. I'm unsure of what you mean by "boho headbands"? maybe this is a cultural thing (I'm not american) but I genuinely don't have a clue what it's referencing. sorry if this is rude! hope you're having a nice day
first a note: I believe “b-ho” is an anti romani racist term. I don’t think OP knew/intended that, but just a note maybe not to use the term, though I understand you were just copying the language of the post. (see this and this)
Basically, I don’t know if it’s as common anymore (or I might’ve blocked all the people who still draw her that way), but lots of people used to draw Piper with this little “hipster” headband along with the feathers, even though I don’t think it ever appeared in canon. People just made it up bc they thought a native girl would wear it, I guess, and then it got spread around.
It pretty much looks like this, you can probably see it all over if you look up “piper mclean fanart” on google.
I don’t think it’s really an american thing, since it’s originally based in anti Rromani racism and while there are absolutely Rromani people in america, the Rromani population in Europe is a lot bigger and older, therefore the anti rromani racism tends to be a lot more established there too. The more American part of it is that hipster styles have drawn from Native stereotypes here too. In general the whole idea of giving Piper that headband thing was just blatant racism.