The latest Disney movie, Tangled, hit theaters last week, and it is all about hair.

Well, sort of.  It’s an adaptation of the classic Grimm Brothers’ fairy tale, Rapunzel.  This Rapunzel’s hair has magical healing properties, and she finally escapes from her tower with 70 gorgeous blonde feet of it – that comes in handy in some unusual ways.  Check out this trailer, it looks great!

Hair has been a major feature in quite a few Hollywood hits.  Hair, the hippie subculture classic, was based on the ’60′s hit musical of the same name.   (more…)

Everyone knows that the pilgrims who landed on Plymouth Rock in 1620 wore all-black clothing with white aprons and collars and big buckles on their shoes.  And the Native Americans they ate with on Thanksgiving wore big feather headdresses.  Duh.  Every picture you ever saw of them proves it!

Only, not.  If you actually visited Plymouth back then (or the Plimoth Plantation Museum today), you’d see people dressed in lots of colors, and shoes that slipped on or laced up.  Check out the photos below, of reenactors in authentic garb.  Info is courtesy of the Plimoth Plantation website.

It actually wasn’t that easy to dye cloth black back in the day, which meant that true black clothing was expensive, and saved for best.   (more…)

Are your tichels taking over your bedroom?  Do you have headbands draped over your bedposts?  Are you at your wit’s end trying to find the blue belt with the silver buckle underneath the mess in your closet?

Managing your haircovering stash can be a big job, especially if you have as many pieces as I do.  I have four different locations where I keep different types of doohickeys stored.  There are a few problems to consider when you’re trying to put stuff away: you want things to be accessible, organized, and neat.  One storage solution might not work for every type of haircovering that you use.   Here are a few ideas for keeping your gear under control – I’d love to hear your ideas as well.

• Boxes: I have one small box overflowing with stretchy headbands on top of my dresser. (more…)

This is what a 4th Grader from Woodrow Wilson Elementary School wrote to CoverYourHair.com

Dear Customer Service,

I am a 4th grader  student at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School. I have chosen your hairbands because I love all the hairbands your make. They are all so beautiful. I could wear them everyday. I think it would be cool if you made a hairband that can connect to cloths with a clip, I think that you could make more money by having multiple choices and if you want more than 1 you coulds charge an extra $1 for each hair band and clip, I would buy more.

Please write me back on your thoughts on my suggestion.

Your number 1 fan,  Go into the page to see the actual letter. (more…)

Last week, I posted about the “ingredients” that go into making an actual hat.  This week, I’m going to talk about one of my favorite subjects: creative baking.

I had this Betty Crocker Kids Cookbook when I was little (it actually belonged to my mother when SHE was little…) that was full of fun, easy recipes.  Some of them were actually tasty.  There was a huge section full of gorgeous cakes, complete with full-color photographs, in the most fascinating shapes; an igloo, a drum set, a bunny rabbit, and so on – including directions to creating an incredibly realistic-looking hat cake. (more…)

Describing a hat can be tough sometimes.  They have all kinds of weird shapes, random bits that stick out, and come in so many different materials.  But when you’re on your cell phone in a store, trying to explain what you’re looking at to the person on the other end of the line (Should I buy this?  Do you want this?), having a vocabulary of hat-describing terms can help.

These are the basic parts of a hat:

• Crown: the part that covers the top of head.  Crowns can be high or low, wide or narrow.  Our soft classy winter hat is an example of a high crown. (more…)