I think it depends in part on the weight of the coronet and how big it is. When I was Princess of Oertha the circlet was so big I could put my head right through it and wear it as a necklace if I wanted to. It had a lining of sheepskin, which was enough to get it to perch on my head, and would mostly stay in place. In those days (1986) I never wore veils, so sometimes I would pull back the top part of my hair, braid it, and pull that braid through the coronet to rest on top of it in back, which helped keep it stable.
My first viscounty circlet was a tiny, delicate twisted nickle-silver and haematite thing that, despite being a full circle, has more in common with a tiara than any period style (1986!). That one was so light that it could fall off without my noticing, so my solution was to pin on a tight headband, pin the veil to that, then use a couple of bobby pins to pin the circlet through the veil and the underlying band. That was secure enough that I could turn cartwheels while wearing the circlet without losing it. Until the day I was in a hurry to grab the circlet and go to coronation court at an event held in a hotel convention center, so I didn't put on the veil at all, just set the circlet on my head and flipped the small braid through as described above. When I went to get into the elevator the crowd inside asked "going up?", I said no, quickly turned around to exit the elevator, and as I did the centrifugal force caused the circlet to slip off my head, slide down my back between the braid and my back, hit the floor, and roll into the gap between the elevator and floor, where it vanished forever. The hotel staff tried looking under the elevator and even rode the elevator with the doors open to see if it had caught somewhere, but no luck.
My current circlet is in between the other two in mass, and is a better fit, so it stays on reasonably well, but I still have much better luck if I pin on the veil properly before I put on the circlet, especially when dancing or being active.
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Date: 2019-02-23 06:19 pm (UTC)My first viscounty circlet was a tiny, delicate twisted nickle-silver and haematite thing that, despite being a full circle, has more in common with a tiara than any period style (1986!). That one was so light that it could fall off without my noticing, so my solution was to pin on a tight headband, pin the veil to that, then use a couple of bobby pins to pin the circlet through the veil and the underlying band. That was secure enough that I could turn cartwheels while wearing the circlet without losing it. Until the day I was in a hurry to grab the circlet and go to coronation court at an event held in a hotel convention center, so I didn't put on the veil at all, just set the circlet on my head and flipped the small braid through as described above. When I went to get into the elevator the crowd inside asked "going up?", I said no, quickly turned around to exit the elevator, and as I did the centrifugal force caused the circlet to slip off my head, slide down my back between the braid and my back, hit the floor, and roll into the gap between the elevator and floor, where it vanished forever. The hotel staff tried looking under the elevator and even rode the elevator with the doors open to see if it had caught somewhere, but no luck.
My current circlet is in between the other two in mass, and is a better fit, so it stays on reasonably well, but I still have much better luck if I pin on the veil properly before I put on the circlet, especially when dancing or being active.