The Shhhower Cap: a retelling
My partner's mother is the kindest, most generous person I know. As within her nature, sometimes she'll buy me oddly expensive every day items just because she can. When I saw she bought me a shower cap, and that said cap came in a hard cover box, I knew this would be one such adventure.
I was about to throw out the box, hang up the cap and go about my day when something about it caught my eye. Reinvented? The shower cap? Were we all waiting for a shower cap revolution? I had to dig deeper.
We start our journey with another reminder that this shower cap is, in fact, fashion forward (in case ou were wondering). Which is ironic in that it is inspired by a staple head dress that is centuries old but I digress.
The next point assures us that this thing we're using to keep our hair dry will keep our hair dry. Which is a step up from what I was previously doing to keep my hair dry: putting it in a messy bun and hoping for the best.
Then comes the most interesting point to me. You know that horrid noise most shower caps make? I can't say that I do, no. But I'll notice it now you've mentioned it.
Finally, we're told it will stay on our heads, which is actually exactly what I'm looking for in a shower cap. How forward thinking of them!
So at this point I'm certain this is the most pretentious piece of packaging I've ever read, as my friend pointed out, it sounds more like a description of the perfect pet as opposed to a toiletry item but anyway, what really sealed the deal was the disclaimer at the bottom saying this revolutionary cap was 'designed with sass in Brooklyn'. Which the more I think about it, sounds like a slogan someone named Brooklyn would put on their baby's onesie.
But hey! Maybe this cap would spare my ears from the sound of rain on a tin roof and finally add that touch of class I've been dying for in my shower routine, so I had to take her for a test toast.
Fashion so forward I got whiplash ~
The first thing I noticed was the noise it made when water hit it because of course that's what I'm going to notice now that you've made me aware of it. Way to take the shhh out of shhhowercap. But it sure did keep the water out, and was comfortable to wear. It stayed put and shook off for a quick dry as a good dog... I mean... showercap should. Plus it added a touch of colour to my bathroom which is actually just a shower in a basement laundry.
Really takes your eyes off the rusty shower caddy.
So coming out of the shower with my hair dry, but otherwise not feeling as reinvented as I'd hoped based on this amazing American innovation, I decided to see how much this slice of Brooklyn's sass would set you back.
And sassed we have been.
I should have assumed that if you're bothered by the noise a shower cap makes chances are you don't have a whole lot of pressures in your life, but as an Aussie in the summer, I still can't help but think about all the Golden Gaytime icecreams I could buy with that coin.
And so here we have arrived folks, in a stage of capitalism so late designer shower caps is a viable industry. We did it.