Young Brunette Girl Wearing A Headband And Posing On The Beach With A Colorful Scarf

A headband is a clothing accessory worn in the hair or around the forehead, usually to hold hair away from the face or eyes. Headbands generally consist of a loop of elastic material or a horseshoe-shaped piece of flexible plastic or metal. They come in assorted shapes and sizes and are used for both practical and fashion purposes.
Horseshoe-shaped headbands are sometimes called Alice bands after the headbands that Alice is often depicted wearing in Through the Looking-Glass. However, it is also beleived that the name came earlier than this and was, in fact, derived from a lice removal comb, shaped to fit the head, named 'a lice band'; later referred to as 'Alice band'.