One of the great uses of beanie hats is to make snoods, most of the £2 beanie hats from the supermarket are a tube of machine knitted fabric rolled over and stitched together at the top. Unpick the top or just cut the top off and you have a long tube of stretchy fabric which become an instant cheap snood.
Snoods are mainly used in lrp especially by the crew who need quick changes. They are used to hide the edges of masks and cover the neck where the mask ends saving makeup.
Cheap beanie plain colour, cheaper the better usually.
Feel for the double layer of fabric.
Unpick the top, or cut or tears if you want it quick.
This leaves a tube of fabric.
Stretch over your head
until around your neck.
Then pull up over your head, usually with you mask already on as below.
The rough unfinished edges you get from unpicking or tearing, just add to the effect.
