OH!! I forgot! I was going to give you one more link...old videos of women doing their hair. I love this!
http://frazzledfrau.tripod.com/titanic/hair.htm On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Sybella <[email protected]> wrote: > What a fun topic!!! Love vintage hair styling! And since my hair wont hold > a heat curl for more than 35 minutes, I've explored a lot of no-heat curl > options. :) > > A fedora is a particular style of hat. It was quite the norm to give hats > a little treatment at the end of every use, especially in the case of > suede, felt or velvet, where a brushing not only knocks the dirt off but > refreshes the surface texture. People did this with garments too to get a > little more wear out of them between washings, or to keep non-washable > garments clean. > > There are quite a number of ways to achieve curls, without modern curling > irons, and women have been doing it since the dawn of time. To me, "crimp" > implies more of a folded, zig-zag type curl than a round curl. Or at the > very least, tight and small curls. In the 1880s, many irons existed for > hair styling many of which would achieve a crimped look. Even a iron for > clothes could be used to curl hair. But I agree that the author is implying > that it is a set and air dry style...and that the starring character is > being lazy with her beauty routine. LOL! > > What you suggested are all definite possibilities. While bobby pins are a > newer invention, standard hair pins have been around since before the birth > of Christ. In addition to pinning curls to your head like 40s pin curls, > hair pin curls could be achieved in the same way that hairpin crochet is > done; take a small strand, wrap it back and forth on the needles, pin the > whole thing in place and let it dry. > > A twist set creates a more "crimped" look too. Either you take small > sections of hair and twist the sections together tightly. Or you take one > section and twist it around something else. Then, once it is fully try, you > carefully un-twist. It's all the same process, whether you use only your > own hair or wrap around something else. > > The twist out set is done today, usually on kinky curly hair but even > those with straight hair can achieve a similar look. Do a web search for > "twist out" to see what I'm talking about. :) > > Or watch this girl. She uses drinking straws and bobby pins to achieve > no-heat crimpy curls. I love it! > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBik0XlFZKE > > > And for something older (1700s), check out this lady's video on paper > curls. I know you were leaning toward no-heat styling, but there's a > catalogue in the beginning of the video that makes this worth watching for > your book research. A few pages of hair tools are shown. > > As an alternative to rolling the hair around a heated rod, one could have > wrapped the ends in paper, then rolled up the hair and folded the paper > over the ends to hold it in place. Then, iron it with a flat iron, let it > cool and pull off the paper to reveal springy curls. I had to hunt but > here's a youtube link demonstrating it. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP9PJsY5__4 > > > On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Elena House <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm writing a novella set in 1887 with three teenage girls as the main >> characters, and as a result I've been doing research into the slang & pop >> culture and so forth of the time period in New England. The 1880s are Not >> My Era, and I've run across a term-and-a-half that confuse me. >> >> Here's the passage, from "The Familiar Letters of Peppermint Perkins", >> with >> the terms and phrases ***starred***. >> >> -------------- >> I did begin that very night by not ***doing up any crimps.*** I was going >> to wear my hair like Clara's. She never wears any crimps. Runover girls >> never do, though they have never advanced any sufficiently good reason to >> me for not crimping it, for they all look like old fuds with it so, and >> they spend just as much and more time brushing and smoothing it ***at >> night >> than I do on my "Fedoras."*** >> >> Well, I was going to say I didn't do up any; but about three o'clock I >> woke >> up and remembered that I had promised to go skating with Charlie Brood out >> to Jamaica the next morning, and I knew any amount of self-improvement >> wouldn't make up for the absence of crimps in his eyes, so I just snaked >> out of bed and ***up with two "Fedoras;"*** but no sooner had I got them >> up >> than my conscience began to reproach me for my weakness, and after I got >> back into bed I determined that even Charlie Brood's criticisms shouldn't >> influence me, and I began to take them down; but you see I was so sleepy, >> getting up so suddenly (it all was like a dream), that I only got one down >> before I dropped to sleep, and the next morning you ought to have seen >> what >> a fright I looked. You know how high my forehead is, and shiny. Well, >> there I was with all that shining expanse and ***one little bob on the >> left >> temple***, and I overslept on account of getting up so, and was late, and >> before I could do anything Charlie Brood was after me. >> -------------- >> >> The crimps part I only find partially confusing; I'm familiar with >> crimping >> as something one does to curl one's hair with hot irons, but not as an >> overnight treatment. Is this a reference to putting one's hair in rags? >> Leaving it in braids overnight for braid curls? Something with hairpins? >> Or...? >> >> The one that really confuses me, though, is the "Fedoras." What on earth >> are these? The context makes it seem pretty clear that this is either >> another method of creating curls overnight or another name for overnight >> crimps, but what is the actual method, and what does the result look like? >> Or, does the name perhaps refer to the location of the resulting curls, >> rather than the method? >> >> Any ideas? >> >> -E House >> _______________________________________________ >> h-costume mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume >> > > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
