"Is that a Ferrari on your head...?"

[hsifeng]

"...or are you just happy to see me?"

Just happened to be rummaging through some old posts on Togs-from-Bogs and ran into this lovely little item. Katrin has been working on hand-netting hairnets for a bit now (and lovely work she does!), but the research in the above linked memory had me giggling. See, all the boys (and many of the girls) in the German group I work with down in LA seem to have a fascination with gold hairnets. Many folks wear them, often to the exclusion of other hats.

 

Their hairnets are lovely, and often finely crafted. No real complaints there.

 

However, given the deduced cost for a fine gold hairnet in Katrin’s research (“…roughly one thousand hours of work…”) and the mind starts to boggle a bit at all this material wealth wandering around in a mercenary camp…

 

Then again, it won’t stop me from encouraging folks to make these in something other than gold (by hand). *grin* There are some nice directions to be found here - along with a lot of other fun sewing information!