Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:32:31 +0100 From: Anne <anne.montgome...@googlemail.com> To: Historical Costume <h-cost...@indra.com> Subject: Re: [h-cost] Victorian Hair: Message-ID: <4bd81ccf.2080...@googlemail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
I would be really interested to hear the result, if you choose this approach, because, to be honest, I never had much luck. My hair is just to my waist, and I have found that hairdressers are more practised in putting up hair that is to shoulder-blades or shorter. They don't seem to know where to "store" all the length, and weight, before doing fancy stuff with the last 8 inches. Jean This happened to me too at my brother's wedding about 18 months ago. My hair looked very nice but you certainly wouldn't have guessed that it is mid thigh length because most of it was just rolled up underneath itself. Admittedly it was very humid (the tropics in summer), which wasn't helping at all. I suspect most historical women would have had hair not much longer than the women drying their hair on that Victorian roof top. There seems to be a limit to how long you can grow your hair which is probably related to hair type, nutrition etc. Curiously I could never grow my hair past the small of my back until I had children. Now I find it is often too long for some historical styles, and I wonder what women who had very long hair did in these periods - or did they just cut it off for fashion's sake? Claire/Angharad _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
