In a rash impulse buy I have bought a hairband (the fabric oblong with elasticated bottom bit) any tips on how to avoid the Eastern European Grandma in the fields (apologising to any EEGITF) look?

[sagacious]

Do I wear the elastic behind my ears?
Does the fabric cover my ears or go behind?
Do I have the fabric right on my hairline (so no hair showing) or move it back an inch or two?
Am I too old (at 37) to pull off white broderie anglaise?

I dislike hats (they do not suit me) but have a parting which always burns.. hence my BRILLIANT idea.

But I look RUBBISH in it.

Why is it so difficult?

[wail]

Great thread title!
You should get some sort of prize for that one.

Am slightly worried you're all being nice to me.

I hope your not being kind yet muttering .. poor gel she can't tie a head scarf and engineer an automatic transfer to babycentre.

oh I did that to dh once coco. Gave him a reverse mohican IYSWIM. So it could have been worse...

Molly, Dh kept saying "at least you weren't cutting your hair properly, imagine if you did that at the front". I kept breaking into a cold sweat at the thought of it

first well done for buying an oblong one not a triangle

elastic goes behind ears

rest depends on face/head shape
my fabric goes behind my ears and is about an inch back from my hairline, I retain my normal centre parting

the floaty scarf look is achieved with long narrow scarf
join ends together with elastic band in a 'ponytail'. wear as above

I remember screaming a lot, thinking I had carved into his actual scalp - which didn't really reassure poor dh an awful lot.

Ha ha, I sometimes do DHs, it's like cutting a bloody bush, he always complains I'm too rough, wimp that he is,

After I had stopped crying, only took 30 minutes, DH came wandering the bedroom with my hair in one hand and a Pritt Stick in the other..