Many people save their hair, the stuff that ends up in their brush, for use in fancy hair styles. They make a "rat" of it and pin/arrange the rest of the hair over it. Also, many fancy hairstyles used false pieces. There is a scene in "Jefferson In Paris", where the daughter is upset, and pulls her hairstyle down, pulling out the false pieces as she does. The folks at the Dickens fair, in SF, braid long hair, then arrange the braids in elaborate styles. If you do a Google image search "period hairstyles", the very first picture (of Gwyneth Paltrow in "Emma"), will take you to an article and if you click on the "In Timely Fashion" link, it takes you to a site which shows how to arrange hair into various styles.
-----Original Message----- From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On Behalf Of ladybeanofbun...@aol.com Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 11:08 PM To: h-cost...@indra.com Subject: [h-cost] Victorian Hair: Hello fellow costumers. ? I wanted to thank those of you who offered your suggestions on mounting swags onto my 1880s balldress. Your advice helped immensely in the creation process and everything went together mostly as planned. My only frustration was that once the decorative parts were?tacked by hand?in place, they lost the smoothness upon laying across the edges of the bodice as had been when initially pinned in place and puckered in some spots. ? After much effort and little discovery though, arranging my hair in a nice period coiffure seems entirely inpossible! Many people I know chose to wear wigs or hair pieces when in costume and although this looks very nice, I have been painstakingly growing out and caring for my own hair for 7 years now solely for the purpose of doing these styles naturally. However, I cannot seem to find a way to do it. Perhaps because I am not very experienced styling hair? ? If there is anyone who could and would be interested in training me on how to put my hair up in some styles it would be so very appreciated and would be willing compensate you for your assistance. My hair is currently down to the bottom of my back or longer. I don't know because I usually brush it out at the side and put it right back up so I haven't measured lately.? Also, I live just outside of Philadelphia PA. Thank you so much :) ? Kindest Regards, Delaware Valley Ladies and Gentlemen Society lady_of_bris...@yahoo.com www.DVLGS.org ? _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
