More cap wheel

I'm feeling pretty good about it! Mysteriously, Garsault does know what he's talking about. My main error previously was that I thought the drawstring had to be tightened as much as possible to shrink down the bottom of the cap, but that's not true at all. Unfortunately, figuring out the size the base should be is difficult because my hair's so short. I used barrettes to get it all out of the way and realized the first cap I made - which seemed too small with the drawstring fully tightened - actually fits pretty well over that, and the newer one is really puffy. But there is no bun or anything in my hair. The bands on both are too wide, but I'll just fold them in half for now and make them thinner next time.

Next is to get a decent ruffle. I'm pretty sure of how to do it, though. The smaller cap is going to get a gathered pair of half-ruffles ... the one that's bigger I feel like is more fashionable, so I was to try to do a pleated ruffle, which will be kind of a pain in the ass, but probably worth it in the end. But it would be a lot easier with a pleating board.

I'm trying to figure out of my next voyage of discovery should be for 18th century lappet caps or Regency day caps or Civil War caps.

Lappet caps: pro, accurate for actually much of the century including the F&I War and probably a decent number would have still been wearing them during the RW; con, nobody seems to want to wear them

Regency caps: pro, so far my Regency items have done the best although this is not good statistics and is pretty skewed based on need and pricing, they don't need drawstrings at all so cut out that step, interesting as new subject; con, REALLY nobody wears them ever

Civil War head stuff: pro, they are smaller so people seem to wear them more frequently, interesting as even newer subject; con, know nothing of market, or construction and extant ones look v. v. complicated