P.S.

I meant to put this at the end of the last post but never mind.  Memory like a sieve.  A couple of months after making the Rapunzel dresses I was browsing through patterns in a local haberdashery when I stumbled  across this pattern

I don't know whether it was released in time for the children's birthdays that year or not.  I'm fairly certain I wouldn't have wanted to plait two of those wigs though!