The women's pantyhose analogy is not a perfect one. The lace is more open-textured and less substantial than pantyhose, and unlike pantyhose it sinks into the thin layer of glue, so that it is virtually invisible. In my experience with a Swiss piece I need to put my head right up an inch from the mirror and move it around to try to catch the light the right way before I can see anything, and even then, if a little bit of the mesh pattern is perceptible, only another hairpiece wearer would realise what it was. To the average Joe it would just look like dry skin or big pores. I leave about a half- centimetre of bare lace at the front of my piece.