Creole women would wear elaborate hairstyles and hats with plush feathers and decorative pins. They attracted the admiration of men but also the scorn of white women and those who felt they were getting too big for their britches.
During the time the Spanish took over Louisiana the Governor came up with a plan to remedy this problem. In order to curve the attentions of men and to stop these grade displays of by Creole women, he passed what is commonly known as the Tignon Laws. Tignon(tee-non) refers to the kerchief women used to tire their hair. This was often worn by enslaved people.
Well, the universe must have blocked that because it had the opposite effect. The women looked even more beautiful with their tignons on. Below is a response to a question about an article in a New Orleans newpaper in the late 1800s about Tignons: