The name of the hair decoration

[yuliyaon]

How would you call those things circled in green? That's a kind of traditional hair bow they put in girls' hair when they start and leave school. Basically, it's flower-shaped thing, but it feels like there must be a name for it in English.

 

[Piscean]

Unless I knew the Russian word for them, I'd simply call them traditional Russian hairbows.

 

[Tarheel]

WHAT DO you call those things circled in green?

 

[PeterCW]

Unless I knew the Russian word for them, I'd simply call them traditional Russian hairbows.

I agree, they aren't something that I have seen any English girl wear.

 

[yuliyaon]

Unless I knew the Russian word for them, I'd simply call them traditional Russian hairbows.

That's something lots of girls wear on special occasions not only in Russia but in many ex-Soviet republics too, and we call it бант (bahnt), which is typically translated as a 'bow'.

 

[Skrej]

That's what I would call them - "large bows". It makes me think of some of the traditional Mexican folklore costumes.