[LargeFormat] DIY Focusing Cloth and Blankies

[Verna Knapp]

I wish my hair were not so slick. That sort of thing just slides off. I 
have better luck with a baseball cap that has a tie for under the chin, 
though that does not work well with the camera. Hmmm. Time for some 
experimental sewing, I think. An old fashioned sunbonnet, but with a 
very short or non-existent "poke" (front brim) just might work, and they 
are not hard to make. And if I sewed the neck shade long enough, it 
would be a fine dark cloth. Just flip it forward when needed. For those 
not familiar with a sunbonnet, they sometimes had a cloth sewed to the 
back to drape down over the neck and upper back to prevent sunburn back 
there. And there was a long "poke" brim in front to shade the face. They 
were used while working in the garden when I was a girl, back when a 
suntan was a negative and not a positive. Women valued a pale complexion 
back then. It said you did not have to work in the fields.

Thanks for the idea!

Verna


Jim Hemenway wrote:

> Verna:
> 
> Instead of braiding or pinning up your hair, perhaps you might consider
> a "doo rag" to keep your hair in place under that BTZS cloth.
> 
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