you get what you pay for [SEP] i have been cutting my husbands hair at home for about a year and needed to up my gamethe cape is large and almost too light hair electrostatically clings to it which may not be a plus let us see if it survives a cold water washi have not quite figured out the closures they do not hook together unless you twist them perhaps they are supposed to hook over collars but there are no directions telling you so and it is not really large enough to overlap in the back and block out that hairthe brush worked for the purpose but it more of a large cosmetic kabuki brush than a neck duster