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
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
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 mae...@gmail.com wrote:
What a fun topic!!! Love vintage hair styling! And since my hair wont hold
Thanks; lovely resources. I'm definitely familiar with the fedora as a
hat; I've just never heard of it as a hair styling technique before, hence
my curiosity!
Thanks to Google books and the Ngram viewer (hugely useful for etymological
study), I've managed to track down a possible link. The
Hm. I see what you mean. In the first reference, the comparison is made
about the time spent brushing hair vs brushing the hat clean. And in the
next, she's using the hat to hide her unstyled hair because she was too
lazy to set it. She was saying that Charlie would be disappointed with
her for
