Woven hair hats

In the "I'll try anything once" category:

One of the things I'd like to do before I die is get my hair, still attached to me, woven into a hat shape. I saw a photo of such a hat once and was intrigued. The model had long blond hair woven into a classic wide-brim sun hat, the kind usually made out of yellow straw. Great hat - she just couldn't take it off. :-) My hair is almost certainly long enough right now for a reasonable-width hat brim.

However, I can't find places or people who do this. Ten minutes of Googling did not help.

Anyone ever seen this sort of thing? Pointers?

Fantasy and craftsmanship

Sometimes, when I enjoy a science fiction or fantasy novel, I want to see the world the characters inhabit. I want to see the dilithium crystals, touch a wizard's robes, all that stuff. In particular, I am definitely not too old to want to play dress-up. I would love to have a replica of Talia's Whites or Rivakonneva's armor hanging in my closet right beside all the other specialty garments I never wear. I'd want them to feel and fit as much like the originals as I could imagine; a polyester-cloth version of boiled leather armor wouldn't cut it.

Childish, in a way, but I'm sure I'm not the only one.

Fifteen years ago, when I used to go to cons, some part of the dealers' room was usually dedicated to just this sort of fantasy... but it wasn't very good at satisfying any specific yearning. There were people selling generic chainmail, generic cloaks, plastic phasers, and poorly-crafted daggers. I wonder if it's changed much.

If it hasn't, I wonder if there's room for a craftswoman who replicates specific things. Someone who reads the book, researches its universe a little, and can put together an outfit and a bunch of accessories that lets the wearer pretend. Unfortunately, that's probably time-consuming and expensive, so it'd be marketed to the aging wannabes with careers (like me) and not really to the penniless college wannabes (like I used to be).

It does sound a bit too much like work though... especially having to re-fit any given design to a wide variety of sizes and imaginations ("Del's tunic does too have a sash to belt it!"). Maybe I should just whip up one or two for me, twirl around in them, and hang them in the closet next to everything else I never wear.