For everyday wear, for me.
http://www.modehistorique.com/ elizabethan/coif.html
http://www.modehistorique.com/elizabethan/images/hoods/coif1.jpg
Of course it is Elizabethan, what else? (rolls eyes)
There is also this, actually. Jacobean (there we go again!)
http://www.extremecostuming.com/articles/howtowearthecoif.html
which shows at the bottom of the page how to wear a coif with a forehead cloth. The author of this site is a re-enactor at Jamestown, which was literally down the road from me at Williamsburg (I lived in an unincorporated section of James City Co., off the Jamestown Road.)
I could get very elaborate with embroidery (OMG! yes) but probably shouldn't.
Anyway, I'm happy.
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