I suppose the first logical fallacy is: you cannot prove a negative :-) I tend to agree with you re: pimping ones portraiture, plus any images of Saints are allegorical and therefore suspect - how many saints of the saints depicted are concurrent and actually wore armor, after all?
My initial thought about using netted caps to control long hair would be to experiment - my experience is that long hair not only distributes unevenly in a netted caul, it mats when pressure is applied. (I braid my own hair to go under my gelbhaube and beret for exactly that reason.) So using it to control hair under helmet seems like it would result in uncomfortable rat's nests. Do we know anyone with the trifecta of long hair, a documentable netted haube*, and a helmet that would be willing to try it and see what happens?
No scans (you know how bad I am with scans and photos!)
* Not the mesh they sell at JoAnn's, please. Which, btw, I have totally been known to use in a pinch, and which the RMS used for *years.*
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My initial thought about using netted caps to control long hair would be to experiment - my experience is that long hair not only distributes unevenly in a netted caul, it mats when pressure is applied. (I braid my own hair to go under my gelbhaube and beret for exactly that reason.) So using it to control hair under helmet seems like it would result in uncomfortable rat's nests. Do we know anyone with the trifecta of long hair, a documentable netted haube*, and a helmet that would be willing to try it and see what happens?
No scans (you know how bad I am with scans and photos!)
* Not the mesh they sell at JoAnn's, please. Which, btw, I have totally been known to use in a pinch, and which the RMS used for *years.*