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Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 10:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lethargic_manDuring my time in Jerusalem, I must have looked at every shop selling capels in Ben-Yehuda Street, and many of those in the Old City too; I must have looked at over a thousand capels, but still couldn't find one I liked.
Yes, I'm fussy. I don't want something so traditional it looks like I'm a three-times a year shulgoer; I don't think Yemenite style capels suit me; I don't really like knitted capels; I don't want anything which could be misinterpreted as implying anything it isn't, and I want something big, because big capels stay on your head, even in a breeze, without the need for a hair clip. In short, I want something like the blue capel I got in the Old City in 1992, and which half of my acquaintance has been trying to get me to get rid of in the last few years.
So in the end I gave up, and spent this evening starting the process of making one myself from the lining of an old jacket. It's going to look a bit odd, because I'm hopeless with my hands, and have never done this before, but I don't think it's going to look completely unwearable. (It's crimson—would wearing a crimson skullcap be a cardinal sin? <ducks>)
The question is whether those who have been trying to get me to throw away my blue one will think it's an improvement or not.
Yes, I'm fussy. I don't want something so traditional it looks like I'm a three-times a year shulgoer; I don't think Yemenite style capels suit me; I don't really like knitted capels; I don't want anything which could be misinterpreted as implying anything it isn't, and I want something big, because big capels stay on your head, even in a breeze, without the need for a hair clip. In short, I want something like the blue capel I got in the Old City in 1992, and which half of my acquaintance has been trying to get me to get rid of in the last few years.
So in the end I gave up, and spent this evening starting the process of making one myself from the lining of an old jacket. It's going to look a bit odd, because I'm hopeless with my hands, and have never done this before, but I don't think it's going to look completely unwearable. (It's crimson—would wearing a crimson skullcap be a cardinal sin? <ducks>)
The question is whether those who have been trying to get me to throw away my blue one will think it's an improvement or not.
