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Questions about this piece
Can you wear a hair tie on your wrist without ruining it?
You can, as long as it sits loose rather than digging in. An elastic worn tight around your wrist is being stretched all day, and that constant low-level tension is what wears the stretch out long before the ones sitting in a drawer give up. A flat woven band is also easier on your skin than a thin rubber elastic, which tends to leave a groove by evening. These are the flat woven kind, meant to read as a bracelet on your wrist between uses, so keep it sitting at the wrist bone rather than pushed up your forearm.
Do hair ties get ruined by salt water and chlorine?
Most do. Chlorine and salt both break down the rubber inside an ordinary elastic, so it stiffens, loses its snap and eventually splits, and the dye on a fabric-covered one fades patchily on top of that. The habit that helps is rinsing the band under fresh water along with your hair instead of letting it dry salty on the way home. These are made to be waterproof and fade-resistant, which is the difference between a hair tie you swim in and one you throw out at the end of the season.
What makes a KKNEKKI different from a regular hair elastic?
The woven band. A KKNEKKI is a single woven band finished with a recycled plastic bead, which is not how most hair ties are put together, and that is where the waterproof and fade-resistant part comes from along with the hold that does not pull or snag. They have been made this way since 1987. The line runs to more than 700 colors and we have 29 of them on the shelf at the moment, plain solids like black, ivory and navy sitting alongside glitter, velvet and two-tone finishes.





