If you spend as much time hanging around gyms and yoga studios as I do, you might bemoan a loss of style. Sometimes I look in the mirror and say where has glamor gone? Where are my fake fur coats, my shiny green boots, my vintage dresses? Or even pants with a zipper?

Thank goodness for lipstick and accessories. Shiny earrings. Glittery headbands.

I’ve been trying out some new headbands lately, made by Bani Bands. Allegedly this company started because Renee Hanson had a big head. Normal headbands slid off. So her sister Bonnie started sewing custom headbands. The style evolved to include an adjustable buckle, an extra soft and velvety backing and super cute fabrics to liven up gym clothes. The hundreds of patterns you can choose from include skulls and cross bones, many colors of glitter, chevrons, polka dots and flowers. Sorority gals can choose the appropriate Greek letters to encircle their heads. Headbands range from $8 to $15 on the Bani Bands website.

In their first four years of business, Bonnie sewed 50,000 headbands! That’s in addition to her job as a PE teacher. As Bani Bands grew, they had to recruit more people to sew them. Renee and Bonnie soon had a sewing crew that included college students, veterans (Renee herself served in the military) and moms, including their own.

These days, it’s kind of special to hold something in your hands and know somebody made it with theirs. And it’s nice to support a business that’s both woman-owned and veteran-owned.

My tests of Bani Bands demonstrate that they stay in place well through gym activities. And a look in the mirror verifies that they’re super cute.