Lack-Of-Information Superhighway, perhaps.

[serinde]

On the entire Internet I cannot find a ski-mask pattern--that is, not for the kind that every kid I knew had growing up, where it's got two separate eyeholes, and the stuff is thin enough that you can roll it up to be a hat when you don't want to look like a dork it's not as cold.

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[arkham1010.livejournal.com]

You mean a balaclava?

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

I thought a balaclava specifically had a large single gap exposing much more of the face.

[tactisle.livejournal.com]

How about this one? (http://photos1.blogger.com/img/197/1158/640/ski4.jpg)

(don't click while drinking coffee)

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

Hah. Already found the Metafilter link to a whole page of those. I am so not buying a 1960s McCall just so I can create the horror, either.

[tactisle.livejournal.com]

Heh. Weird though, how hard it is to find a pattern for the classic 3-hole ski mask.

If it was this hard to find any ski masks at all, I'd blame the Patriot Act or some crap. But nooo, you can find the one-hole style everywhere. Sheesh.

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

I think it's because The Current Generation has horrible memories of being forced to wear them as kids and doesn't want to spread the suffering. The one-hole style has a much lower dork quotient.