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 Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2008 10:20 pm
(move to historical fashions board)- TS
I will be attending a Dicken's era themed fair this weekend and I have realized that I have no idea how to style my hair. My hair is pretty long (several inches past my collar bone) and have access to curling irons, hair product and so on.
Does anyone have any ideas for how I can do up my hair?
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Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 5:26 am
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Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 10:28 am
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Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 7:15 pm
I want to try some of these hairstyles now!!!!
A bit off topic, but I found a beauty salon that said they'd do my hair like Marie Antionette! I so want to do that for prom!!! I also found a Marie Antionette dress!
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PortraitofaVictorianGhost
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Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 1:42 am
Women (at least in the U.S.) usually parted their hair in the middle, bring it low around the sides of their heads, covering their ears, ending in a bun or low pony tail. Very unattracrtive for someone like me, unfortunatly! Googling old Civil War pictures will help.
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Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 8:08 pm
Well, my hair is too short to do any of those styles. They are pretty though.
Just fyi- it should be Leavenworth, KS for the two pictures. (That's where I call home smile )
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Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 12:29 am
Thank you guys! I've decided to wear my Dickens costume again for a costume Christmas party, and your hair suggestions are a real help.
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Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 1:20 pm
just to add,
for short hair, CURLS
seriously...
get the smallest curling iron you can find.. and make ringlets...
sence i am civil war, i get to cheet,
a snood and a hairpeice shoved in it smile to give it body
also, nother thought...
some women did have short hair then ( if i cannot find a snood, *cause my neice hides them or my son.. or what have you* or if i don't have one to match my dress, ) i will say one of 3 things *depending on the person, my mood or my present company*
1. I was very ill in Labor, to aleaviate my fever they cut my hair...
2. I sold it after my husband died to care for my son
or
3. I just got out of the asylum smile
4laugh
I am lucky that we have Fort Bayard Asylum about 6 hours from here,
would be about 2 days travel back then smile
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Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 5:59 am
The posts above me were incredibly helpful, and there's really little to add. All I have to say is that I'd like to put an emphasis on how short your hair really is in relation to the Victorian period. Past the collar bone would be common in girls 15 and under, but more mature ladies had hair that extended anywhere from the lower back to the ankles (depending on how fragile their hair was, usually).
In conclusion, when I would fix my hair in updos, I would have to pad it. Usually by creating a small "rat" (cheap, teased, synthetic hair, stuffed into a hairnet) and placing it under to avoid eons of teasing. biggrin
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