Having exclusively had a pixie cut for a little more than a decade. I can attest people having their opinions on it hasn’t gone away. “Y’know, men don’t like short hair.” Is for some reason the most common one, as if the rest of me looks like I care what men like.
@delmaplain5358
Жыл бұрын
My hair has been in various Pixie styles since I was in late teens! There have been times I let it grow out, but always went back to my Pixie!
@Joyride37
Жыл бұрын
“Good, Im gay” usually shuts them up and works for me. Of course if you’re not actually gay you may not be comfortable fibbing like that / don’t want to be perceived as something that isn’t true, which is fair. And I personally am annoyed when I’m assumed gay because I have short hair (stereotypical, lame), and not because I radiate queerness from my fucking pores. It IS funny to see their shocked face though after replying to their dumb comment
@Skullkiddawn
Жыл бұрын
@@Joyride37 not specifically gay, but definitely a queer person. It never fails to amuse me that they think my untamed neon yellow threat display passing for hair exists explicitly to appeal to men of a certain persuasion.
@monicathornton8227
Жыл бұрын
@@JillWhitcomb1966 American men prefer women to be submissive. Just my observation. It was a shock when I came to the US.
@littleblackpistol
Жыл бұрын
@@monicathornton8227 I've worked and travelled all over the planet and I have rarely found a group of men less attractive en masse than your standard issue American blokes with their loud opinions given unasked for at every turn and their weird little bouts of insecurity-borne or religious misogyny.
@EirynKatherine
Жыл бұрын
Light bulb popped up for me as soon as you brought up the bleached hair trend. It's not just the stark line between the bleached hair and the natural color. Even today bleaching damages the hair, sometimes to the point where all there is to do is cut it off. I imaging the Victorian's bleaching methods weren't any better.
@michellebyrom6551
Жыл бұрын
Yes this. Curling tongues could literally burn the hair off too. So short curly hair could simply be the result of a failed long hair curl as the only way to hide it would be by cutting the rest the same. Bleached hair probably did mix well with overly hot curling tongues either.
@duceagle6625
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, a whole bunch of people must have fried their hair off.
@maggierobertson2962
Жыл бұрын
This was my first thought too. I can't imagine how harsh hair bleaching products were at the time.
@coyotech55
Жыл бұрын
I cut my long hair short when I quit dying it because of that line - especially noticeable since my hair was growing in gray from dark brown dye. My hair grows slowly, so that meant a couple of years of non-long hair. Years before I had ended up cutting it after burning it red and frizzy when I tried to straighten it. So yeah, I do get that.
@becbrown212
Жыл бұрын
Henna was also used as well as other unknown dyes which had harsh chemicals. Henna changed my hair forever and dried it out, i had to wait until it grew out then had a big chop.
@cometkatt
Жыл бұрын
my great grandmother had gorgeous LONG thick red hair. and migraines -- a LOT of migraines. her doctor finally told her she MUST cut her hair to help stop them.. SO she did & pretty much the whole family cried when she did, but the migraines pretty much stopped cold.. one of the reasons for cutting hair in those times
@maryerb6062
5 ай бұрын
Good for great grandma!! Migraines are torture.
@JaneCrossan
28 күн бұрын
I get a migraine if I put my hair in a ponytail
@cathipalmer8217
26 күн бұрын
Mine too!
@NancyHink-ly7sh
25 күн бұрын
My grandmother, who lived to be 109, cut her hair, and my grandpa said sarcastically "you sure look bright"
@CLJlovesmal
22 күн бұрын
I've had short hair most of my life. Tried growing it out a few times. The last time... so many migraines...and it turns out occipital neuralgia setting off migraines. Shaved my head for cancer charity some years ago and the pain was gone. My hair grows fast so I have to keep it short or I have more ON/migraines. Can't help but wonder if it hadn't been the same for my mother. Short hair and less head pain? I'll take the stupid assumptions for less pain.
@dawnvickerstaff2429
Жыл бұрын
My grandmother talked about two different instances in which short hair was considered desirable. First, women (especially) would have their heads 'shorn' if they were ill with any sort of fever. Long hair was considered a 'drain' on the limited energy that fevered people experienced. Men already had shorter hair so they usually weren't mentioned. Then, when she was a young woman the flappers with their bobs became fashionable. Grandmother was right in tune. She couldn't wait to get rid of her long hair. In contrast, Great Aunt Laura, my great grandmother's sister never cut her thick dark hair which she wore wrapped around her head until her death at 105. It's notable that she had siblings who were stolen away to school where hair was forcibly cut. One other thing, short hair was also a statement that women have always made when they were protesting against their expected role as a woman. They still do. Perhaps in some of your photographs we are looking at women who did not have the vocabulary to speak about their feelings but found they could be eloquent with their hair.
@kathyp1563
Жыл бұрын
Hair was forcibly cut? Please elaborate.
@silimavanya
Жыл бұрын
@@kathyp1563i also noticed “stolen away to school”, which makes me wonder if they were part of a stolen generation (happened in many countries)
@becbrown212
Жыл бұрын
@@kathyp1563 hair could be cut to fit the rules of an institution or as a punishment. Cutting hair even now holds connotations of social shame or humiliation. Shearing hair short was also used to eradicate vermin such as lice, so having short hair could be an indication of attempts to manage this and the accompanying social stigma.
@CaseyAvalon
Жыл бұрын
That's so fascinating, thank you for sharing. 👍🤠
@luluah1198
Жыл бұрын
To avoid lice, for punishment , . Usually poor girls in charitable Christian institutions suffered this . They were sometimes run by nuns . They also brought forward the “shunning vanity argument “
@meredithbarbery6247
Жыл бұрын
The first time I ever got a pixie...so many people asked "is your husband ok with it?!" Which was just... so annoying.
@eiPderF
Ай бұрын
Same! Or “he let you?” If I even asked him he’d shrug and say “it’s your head.” Right now my hair is really long. I got 4 inches cut off and he thought I hadn’t done anything 😂 I think he was hoping for something shorter. Maybe next time 😀
@Zippythewondersquirrel
Ай бұрын
Mine always says “I didn’t marry your hair”.
@karladenton5034
Жыл бұрын
As someone who went from 'at the hip because I don't have a lady's maid so it can't be longer' to 'post breast cancer quasi boot camp' over the last six months, short hair is SO easy. I think I'm keeping it short for a while. It's good to know that I can still wear historical costume! Great video and your cut is very cute.
@rejoyce318
Жыл бұрын
I hope you have a complete recovery.
@cinemaocd1752
Жыл бұрын
Best wishes for a full recovery. Short hair is easier! I agree.
@keilahnifreedman7695
Жыл бұрын
You look beautiful with long or short, you rock that short hair beautiful. In Jesus Christ name i pray you have a full recovery and that The Lord has His holy hand on you and your life 💕
@MsGbergh
Жыл бұрын
Even if women did not have short hair until the flapper era, you could still wear historical costume. A long wig could be worn, and if you have a wardrobe of wigs they could be done in different styles.
@lenaeospeixinhos
Жыл бұрын
I present for your consideration: head lice First haircuts I gave my boys were because of lice. Impossible to get that fine tooth comb through curly hair. After the cut, the beasties were gone in two treatments. I imagine back then, when there weren't treatments as easy and effective as we have now, lice must have been a nightmare! Then you get a short do and whoop! there they go. What a relief! Great video, so much great information and so many pretty pictures!
@argusfleibeit1165
Жыл бұрын
My sister was about 13 when her class got head lice. My mom and I were patient and spent a couple of weeks going through her long, very curly hair. You had to slide the nit down the entire length of the hair to remove it. She was in junior high and would have been traumatized to be forced to cut it. Until a couple of years later when she took herself to the Mall and got it cut off really short. I don't think she was really happy about it, but we all just told her it looked great.
@katherinechapman1309
Жыл бұрын
@@argusfleibeit1165 We had the same issue one time. The kids went to New York City to the circus, and they came back with lice! We just took the boys outside and gave them buzz cuts, but my daughter had that long, curly hair and boy was it difficult. We finally asked her to get it cut short just to make sure we got everything.
@argusfleibeit1165
Жыл бұрын
@@katherinechapman1309 Well, once you do the chemical treatment, they've all supposed to be dead. It just feels and looks icky to still have the nits. I've heard of flea circuses, but that was a "lousy" result of a fun time for you all.
@TheBarkinFrog
Жыл бұрын
My great-grandmother, who was born in 1875, told the most common reasons for women/girls to cut their hair short was lice, scarlet fever, and they had recently been in prison, where they were forced to shave their heads.
@AmandathePandaBooks
Жыл бұрын
They also had to burn all the bedding, especially the pillows. The sheets, possibly boiled. What a mess!!
@cara9648
Жыл бұрын
I find it so fascinating how humans don't really change throughout our history, but people will paint humans of the past as extremely different than how we are today, however, if you do any bit of research into it, you find that they were indeed just like us.
@Horsefaire
Ай бұрын
Very much like us
@brendamoon2660
Ай бұрын
King Solomon said "there is nothing new under the sun"
@adaddinsane
7 сағат бұрын
People always have been just people.
@gracesw9906
Жыл бұрын
the sheer cognitive dissonance i felt at seeing people in 1880s dress sporting pixie cuts truly did me in. because, all of a sudden, their faces looked like people i would meet today. they resemble my sister and their partner; my non-binary friends; middle school girls freeing themselves from their hair for the first time; women i know that have lost their hair during chemo. i felt a kinship with the women in those pictures that i have not felt before. the young girl on the right at 13:19 looks like a young Millie Bobby Brown; the person on the left on the very first set of images reminds me of Kaz Rowe. i love this video and i cant wait to share it with my short-haired friends.
@bhaktasingh5307
Жыл бұрын
I had a really similar heart warming experience. Getting to see faces and hair that look like my transmasc self filled my heart to the brim.
@dragonshadow4145
Жыл бұрын
I fought to be allowed short hair, and once I finally got it, my grandmother described how every relative with my hair type got a short haircut by the time they were 18, since our hair is frizzy and has the consistency of sheep wool.
@eiPderF
Ай бұрын
This reminds me of a classmate who was the only girl of 7 kids. Her hair was past her back jeans pockets. (I dunno, that’s just how 7-8 year olds measure, I guess?) She hated it. One day she came to school with a “boy” haircut. Her mom kept her big fat braid so Daddy could see Terri’s beautiful long hair any time he liked 😂😂 As far as I know she never regretted that hair cut.
@spitfire57whaley35
Жыл бұрын
My grandfather (born 1906) used to talk about his mother’s hair. It was so long it reached the floor. She would let it down and all her children would gather to comb and brush it every day.
@wren_bean
Жыл бұрын
Beatrix Potter, as a young lady with a lymph node condition, cut her hair short in this fashion. This was so fascinating, thank you for all your research and for sharing your findings!
@alexandragatto
Жыл бұрын
She shows up in the video at 13:35!
@esmesvintagecloset
Жыл бұрын
You have no idea how happy this video has made me... I'm still going through what will be six months of chemotherapy, and lost all of my hair, apart from a scattering of eyebrow hairs, which stubbornly hung on! My last chemo is on 20 Dec, and it started growing back a couple of weeks ago so I'm not even at a buzz cut stage yet... but it is so nice to know that I don't have to wait a few years for my hair to fully grow back before I can authentically do my vintage wardrobe. This brings me enormous joy. Thank you x
@daxxydog5777
Жыл бұрын
Congratulations on your finishing chemo! I hope you do well from now on. I lost all my hair due to chemo for breast cancer 23 years ago, and I remember going out on New Year’s Eve after I dyed the scruffy little sprouts blonde! Sadly, due to my cowlick situation, short hair is a battle, so I grew it out, but I did enjoy trying out short hair for a while. Prayers for your quick recovery!
@esmesvintagecloset
Жыл бұрын
@@daxxydog5777 thank you for your kind words :) I've still got surgery and radiotherapy to have, so this isn't the end of it yet. But I'll get there. I have to wait 6 months to be able to colour my hair, which is kind of sad because I'm impatient and want funky coloured pixie hair, but also kind of cool as it us coming back white, even though I'm only 44...
@keilahnifreedman7695
Жыл бұрын
You look beautiful with long or short, . In Jesus Christ name i pray you have a full recovery and that The Lord has His holy hand on you and your life 💕
@MsFitz134
Жыл бұрын
Congratulations on finishing chemo! 🎉
@xiamrm
Жыл бұрын
Mine came back white and "bent" (that's the only word for it -- it couldn't be called curly) after chemo, at age 44. My first post-chemo perm, about a year later, did not take at all. But subsequent perms and highlights have been lovely.
@dilihopa
Жыл бұрын
My mother who was born in 1918 England told me that when she was a girl if someone had head lice, their hair would be cut very very short. She knew that this had been the case for generations. They would have their heads examined at school and would not be able to return until their hair had been cut.
@romystumpy1197
Жыл бұрын
I was at school in the 60's ,we used to have the nit nurse who would use a thin wooden spatula, separating the hair for eggs
@FunSizeSpamberguesa
Жыл бұрын
@@romystumpy1197 I was in elementary school in the 80s and early 90s, and we did, too. The shitty thing is that you got inspected in front of the whole class. I never actually knew of anyone who was found to have lice that way, but I can imagine how humiliating it would be to have the entire class see you were found with lice in your hair.
@alexashcraft116
Жыл бұрын
I used to keep my hair long because i just didnt care, that was until my sister had a girlfriend that would constantly play with it. She would come up behind me and pet me and go on about how pretty it was. One day i chopped it off super short, she acted like i committed a crime against humanity.
@user-mv9tt4st9k
Жыл бұрын
People who do that seem to operate in a universe where people lack respect for one another. Personal space, people, personal space. 😂
@kittling5427
Жыл бұрын
You can accurately portray almost any era at all as a woman with short hair - poor women have been selling their hair for the convenience of rich people throughout most of history. We seem to want to forget poor people so often in the costuming comunity
@TC-rn9yx
Жыл бұрын
100%. On one hand, people are by and large naturally/instinctually drawn toward beautiful objects. The fact that the vast majority of extant garments are both beautiful *and* of the "look at the $$$$$ I spent on it" variety compounds this considerably.
@sarroumarbeu6810
Жыл бұрын
Indeed, the population of the past just like today was comprised of poor ppl that couldn't follow the high class trends because they needed to work gruesome hours for scraps and barely getting by and feeding their families
@KaliMaaaaa
Жыл бұрын
The poor have disproportionately been women for the last 5000 years for a reason. Please don't act like ANY of these practices effect, are imposed on or are directed at men to the same degree (rich or poor) that they are towards women (since birth). The poorest of men is always above the poorest woman in this Patriarchal world.
@katherinechapman1309
Жыл бұрын
Yes, and they also sometimes cut it very short if they had a fever or other illness to help them recover. Small children also sometimes had short hair for convenience. But sometimes you see the opposite - poor girls growing their hair very long because it was free to do that and it was a way they could have one very beautiful thing.
@selecttravelvacations7472
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@zoyadulzura7490
Жыл бұрын
Interesting that women were accused of trying to look younger by cutting hair short, and that shorter hair was seen as more childlike", when these days people generally have the opposite association.
@v0id_b0i_89
Жыл бұрын
What they said about women cutting their hair short leading to baldness is so dumb and it reminded me of how people tell kids not to make faces or their face will stick like that. Can't tell if the Victorians really believed that or if it was just another way to control women by infantilizing them.
@VeretenoVids
Жыл бұрын
The passing of generations usually involves some degree of astonishment at what past people did and believed I often wonder what people are going to find horrifying about us 100 years from now.
@thebrookealyson
Жыл бұрын
@@VeretenoVidsA lot , actually.
@VeretenoVids
Жыл бұрын
@@thebrookealyson Oh I'm sure of it!
@naowright9308
Жыл бұрын
What is funny is if you believe it then it will develope. I have seen women who cut their hair and it grew right back just as thick as ever, then I know women who cut it as a "rebellion" and it never grew back the way it was before. Whatever you do, do with a clear conscience and you will not stray far.
@nicolepettit5120
Жыл бұрын
I used to make faces a lot by crossing my eyes , but then when I went to the eye doctor, the eye doctor told me I was slightly cross-eyed. So I stopped doing that.
@seanmcgcostumes
Жыл бұрын
Not only is this video fascinating, but with talking about short hair I *immediately* spotted your earrings, which were made by my friend! It was so cool to spot them, her stuff really suits your style!
@NicoleRudolph
Жыл бұрын
Just bought another pair from her this last week! One of my favorite shops
@funwithrandomnesable
Жыл бұрын
you can't just not say who your friend is and where I could buy their earrings
@NicoleRudolph
Жыл бұрын
@@funwithrandomnesable I think many things are sold out because of the holiday rush but: www.etsy.com/shop/YoshiStokes
@seanmcgcostumes
Жыл бұрын
@@funwithrandomnesable Nicole beat me to it, but there's still some other designs left! The Victorian-inspired Etruscan Revival earrings are 💯
@rosannajohnson6924
Жыл бұрын
I'm so glad you brought it up! I've literally been staring at them the whole video. They are gorgeous.
@esmeralda3858
Жыл бұрын
Your video inspired me to do some research on Trove, a free resource of scanned newspapers at the National Library of Australia. I discovered that there was also a fashion for short hair in 1877. According to one 1877 article I read, the demand for false hair outstripped supply, so some women who couldn't buy false hair just cut their hair short instead. This created its own trend. It was described as 'cut quite short to the head all round, except in front, where it is left long enough to form round ring-curls ... It is young-looking, pretty, becoming and advantageous to the hair.' I agree with you that the Victorians defy our stereotypes of them. They were much more interesting, individualistic and unpredictable than we tend to assume.
@nanner3135
Жыл бұрын
okay but when you said that having short hair stunts growth for the brain. DAMN SON!! The dude who wrote that had a major self call out post. Callin himself and other men out.
@maritaberndt6200
26 күн бұрын
😅
@MangaChibiAnime
Жыл бұрын
At 13:39 I noticed that the lady's "brooch" in the right picture is actually a traditional piece of silver used in the Norwegian folk dress "bunad", it's specifically a belt clasp. Maybe she immigrated to the USA and didn't get to bring her entire dress, so she just had that small piece of her heritage with her and wanted to incorporate it into more modern clothes. Anyway that's just a little thought...
@lesliehyde
Жыл бұрын
I keep my hair cut short because of my chronic migraines. Also, keeping my hair short makes my life SLIGHTLY easier with many of the rest of my chronic illnesses with many of them being chronic pain.
@lenabreijer1311
Жыл бұрын
Yes I went through that too. The smell of my hair during a migraine just drove me nuts and heaving into a bucket. The weight bothered my neck which could trigger things. A complete hysterectomy solved the migraine problem. Estrogen was my worst trigger.
@helkalantto7534
Жыл бұрын
Chronic shoulder and upper back pain really makes things like blow-drying difficult. Having short hair is a life-saver.
@tinklvsme
Жыл бұрын
Me 2. I broke my shoulder in 3 places & couldn't put my hair in a ponytail or scrunchie. My Mr tried to do it for me. but just couldn't get it. I had broken my arm, wrist so I figured out to prop my hair dryer on the hand towel rack. I could style it with 1 hand. ✌️
@SprocketsandLupins
Жыл бұрын
I love the Victorian era aesthetic but I have lupus and it badly affects my hair. I'm no good with wigs either so I always felt like I was missing out on experimenting with modern takes on their hairstyles. Then I found your video! I'm now down the rabbit hole of cute hair styles to try and I'm so excited 😊
@renji2187
Жыл бұрын
As someone who has to keep their hair short for their health Thank You so much for this. It's so nice to know that at least by the 1880's some women where using short hair. I've fought with wanting long hair so that it would look right in vintage fashion this has given me so freedom from that. I can't tell you how freeing this was for me so again thank you so much for sharing this.
@sloegenie
Жыл бұрын
What a difference to schools these days in which lice become endemic because teachers and school nurses are not allowed to search through the children’s hair. By the time the lice are obvious the child’s head is full of them and have infested most of their class.
@infamoussphere7228
Жыл бұрын
The rather weird article that goes on about there being no pleasure in stroking short hair reminds me of a quote from Maurice, the Edwardian gay novel by E.M Forster. Maurice is being hypnotised to try and cure him of being gay (it doesn't work obviously) and the hypnotist is convincing him there's a painting of a beautiful woman called Miss Edna May. "And look at her lovely long hair." "I like short hair best," says Maurice. "Why?" says the hypnotist. "Because I can stroke it." So there you go, short hair, way more stroke-able according to Maurice (of course in this case it's because he's thinking of men). This was a great video! I've had short hair for a long time and one of the reasons why I didn't think I'd ever get into historical reenactment in any way is because I don't want to wear a wig or grow my hair out. I could always dress as a man which would be totally fine but it is nice to know that the mid 1880s would also work. And yes, people still have Opinions about women cutting their hair short. The good news is, the vast majority of the people I know have never met me while I had long hair, so they don't have anything to compare it to and can't go "you looked better with long hair wahh why did you cut it." If people wonder why I cut my hair short, here are the short reasons. a) Matches my gender presentation better as I lean more butch, b) I never learned how to style long hair so I just wore it in a ponytail all the time and what's the point, c) the ponytails were giving me a headache and d) didn't enjoy the wind blowing hair into my mouth. Short answer is just because I like it.
@karenfield3665
Жыл бұрын
I'm happy at least one other person was reminded of this very specific reference! That scene always stuck in my mind.
@killme6715
Жыл бұрын
it is funny bc I grew out my hair since I wanted to be able to braid it and wear claw clips, but I also wish I could do that while having it shorter since I think it's much nicer to pet when it's like that
@soneil7745
4 ай бұрын
As someone with long hair, I get it. Any time I'm getting intimate with someone, they try to stroke my hair. They end up finding every damn knot in it.
@mittensisnotacat6161
17 күн бұрын
I love that scene with the hypnotist. “What an ungallant remark.” I agree with what Maurice is saying.
@JustSaralius
Жыл бұрын
We do in fact have tiny muscles on our follicles, namely the Arrector Pili muscle, which is what makes our hairs stand when we are cold or get shivers. Just wanted to point that out. :P
@adamdaichendt3838
Жыл бұрын
It doesn't do that on our heads does it?🤔
@croitoriafaraformule
Жыл бұрын
You had me at "Men love to play with it!" They like to play with so many things. :-)) Kidding aside, my great -grandma told me that in late victorian era women cut their hair to get rid of lice, for high fever or to sell, never for personal comfort or to antagonize anybody.
@user-mv9tt4st9k
Жыл бұрын
Interesting. Another curiousity: Has the media always portrayed its minority opinions as belonging to the majority of the people?
@MarquisdeL3
Жыл бұрын
I go through various variations on short cropped hair, (most recently I've been sporting a look inspired by the French Revolution styles) and my hairstylist commented that she loves how I always come in with interesting short hair requests and how she loves getting to do very short cuts on women.
@aliciaf1055
Жыл бұрын
"There is no fun in gently stroking a head that has nothing but stubble" - au contraire. Is there anything nicer than stroking a freshly buzzed head?
@YeshuaKingMessiah
Ай бұрын
Eewwwww no Men need hair too as much as women Long hair for all!
@elizabethbeierle7464
Жыл бұрын
I’m currently growing out a buzz cut and trying my best with the awkward stages, this is giving me all kinds of inspiration for better do’s!! Thank you Nicole!
@jjez61
Жыл бұрын
Morgan Donner has several videos about growing out a buzz cut. She also has a video of when she cut her hair off.
@angelle050801
Жыл бұрын
I was just about to send you to Morgan'as channel but someone beat me to be it!
@elizabethbeierle7464
Жыл бұрын
Thank you both! I’ve already watched those as well and Morgan has already been saving me tons!
@werelemur1138
Жыл бұрын
I cut off my bsl hair to a bob because chronic pain made me tenderheaded. I went from high pony, all day every day to not being able to find a hairstyle that didn't hurt. I'm starting to grow it back now that nerve blocks every four months are helping, but I doubt I'll ever be able to comfortably wear it that length, so I am loving the hairstyle inspiration.
@niamhybeagable
Жыл бұрын
There is a link between fever and hair loss - it's called telogen effluvium. Basically, for some people a fever will cause the normal hair follicle's growth and fallout cycle to reset. I know after having a vicious flu a few years ago, with a fever, I lost handfuls a few months later.
@user-mv9tt4st9k
Жыл бұрын
I had major surgery several years ago and my hairdresser at the time explained this to me, and commented about how much hair it seemed I had lost. He told me hair often responds to health.
@K_rye
Жыл бұрын
I lost a lot of hair after having had COVID early in 2020. Turns out it's not uncommon.
@heathhanz842
Жыл бұрын
You are well spoken! It's nice to watch a youtuber who doesnt have a crazy number of clips when they've edited their video.
@MllePriscillaMarie
Жыл бұрын
I love the short hair with these Victorian dresses. I myself have short hair and love historical dress. Now that I'm aware that this was actually a thing...well then!
@kb3716
Жыл бұрын
Your haircut is absolutely darling! And fabulously done, wonderful content, as usual, Ms. Rudolph. I always wish I could give two thumbs up. 👍👍
@darthbee18
Жыл бұрын
Huh, fancy that! Didn't expect there's a brief trend of short hair in the 1880s! Always love how you go about such historical topics, Nicole 😺 (...also that photo of Oscar Wilde with bowl cut hair sure gave me emotional damage 😩🤪🙃🥲💀🔥)
@SeleneSalvatore
Жыл бұрын
Thank you Nicole. Now we can associate short hair in XIX c with Suffragette movement and free thinking women like painters or novelist. Not only with convalescent, mental hospital patient or circus troupe member. Also hair piece ( like bun on back of head) can be pin to short hair and with hat of this era your hair will look more traditional.
@ArtByEmilyHare
Жыл бұрын
I cut my hair pixie short 6 years ago and have never looked back. It is sooooo easy (I also stopped dyeing it at the same time and am greying). I have felt more feminine with my short hair too which I was not expecting and had spent years being very attached to my long curls. Don’t think I’d ever go back - and super interested that I could go for a Victorian silhouette if I wanted and it still be accurate!
@kaytiej8311
Жыл бұрын
I always love your research. And as a short hair fan, this is wonderful. Over the years (I'm now 60) I've lost count of the number of times women of all ages have said they wished they had short hair but their husband/partner liked it long; the whole 'sexy' argument. Oh my.
@m.maclellan7147
Жыл бұрын
Also 60, single by choice. I tend to chop all my hair off every 5 years or so. I am lucky as I have fantastic hair & it looks good either short or long. And, it tends to grow fast. Who wants a partner that tells you how to live ???? To heck with that. Rather be alone than with a controlling jerk. It's an option ladies ! Lol ! I think it is HILARIOUS when people tell me that older women should cut their hair short. Like I would listen to them, lol ! I am rocking my gray "racing stripes" & I don't give a damn about others opinions! (THIS is the good part of aging. Ya just don't CARE after you hit 50! Care even less when you hit 60 ! Lol ) Be you. It's all you have. And, it's fantastic ! Great video, by the way !
@kaytiej8311
Жыл бұрын
@@m.maclellan7147 I recognise the privilege of having a husband (38yrs together) who respects me and recognises I'm my best self with short hair and he puts no demands on me 'looking' a particular way.
@Jaliqai
Жыл бұрын
@@m.maclellan7147 I'm 60 & short-haired (I love the ease & convenience of it), and I also had purple hair last year. First time in my life it had ever been dyed. I let it go back to my natural colour to see if I'd gone grey underneath it - not yet - and in the New Year I'll be going back to purple hair.
@VaryaEQ
Жыл бұрын
I cut my hip-length hair without telling anyone. Pixie cut short. Asked my boyfriend what he thought afterwards. He said he didn't mind, as long as I liked it. That was three years ago, and I'm never growing it out again. Short hair suits me. My best friend has been thinking about cutting her hair short since I did, but her husband doesn't like short hair on women. She cut it shoulder-length recently, and she said she won't go any shorter because her current length "broke his heart". To each their own, but I don't think I'd be able to deal with a guy like that. I'm too rebellious, and I'd cut my hair just to spite him. 😅 So lucky my guy doesn't care.
@m.maclellan7147
Жыл бұрын
@@VaryaEQ It is your hair, not his. Apparently you are better at setting boundaries then your friend is ! I would tell your friend's man to "piss up a rope" personally! Lol !
@luciddreams6210
Жыл бұрын
Actually regularly cutting the hair can stave off balding to some extent because it reduces pulling on the scalp caused by weight and combing through stubborn tangles. Also if you shave it 😮 (which seems harsh for most people but if you can get over the initial shock it’s not that bad) it reminds the hair to grow sufficiently dense to make up for the lack of coverage that you normally have with longer hair.
@meepMepp
Жыл бұрын
i think they shaved their hair for hair loss treatment because hair lost due to stress usually grows back after a couple of months. So when someone shaves their thinner hair and about maybe 3-4 months later their hair starts to be fuller again it might apper like what fixed the issue was cutting the hair.
@michellebyrom6551
Жыл бұрын
Having had alopecia, I can tell you that shorter hair hides the thin patches better than long hair. Mine was almost waistlength at the start. A shoulder length Bob worked for a time before going for chin length and rough cut layers.
@lindaparker7199
Жыл бұрын
Wow, the lady on the left at 13:10 had the perfect mod sixties hair style! If she was wearing a poor boy sweater, mini skirt, and high boots, she would have fit right in dancing to the Beatles music. Nobody would have guessed she was from 80 years back in time!
@marikotrue3488
Жыл бұрын
My knowledge of U.S. history is deficient. I knew about mistreatment of indigenous people, but forcibly trying to make everyone look "standardized" is horrific. While my hair has thinned in recent years, it still looks fine long (midway down my back). I tried short hair and bangs once as a child...still have PTSD whenever I get my hair professionally cut.😂
@johnc2988
Жыл бұрын
But through social coercion we still aim to make those around us similar to ourselves. You don't like someone's choice of music, art, or whatever and then they will not be in your circle of friends or people to be admired. We like to feel free and easy and if that means ejecting a sibling from our social circle but at the same time we will allow a 'dangerous' person in on the edge of our group. Normality is not a uniform concept your normality is vastly different to the average Chinese. Listen to the Russian's on the TV and you get a different opinion about the war. Do you rate people who live in your street or apartment block even if you don't know them?
@jomercer21113
10 ай бұрын
When my grandmother was a little girl around 1905, a neighbor's daughter got scarlet fever, and her hair fell out (hmmm, maybe they cut it) and came back red and curly. My grandmother said she wanted to get scarlet fever, too, so her hair would come back so wonderfully. Cutting hair to sell reminds me of "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry in 1905. My other grandmother, born in 1912, despised long hair on anyone--kids, men, women, dogs. From old photographs we could see she had very curly hair as a child, but it was always short.
@JoMarieM
Жыл бұрын
In the book, "Little Women", Jo has her hair cut off so that she can make some money to send to her sick father. Since "Little Women" was a very popular book, I wonder if maybe that helped to make short hairstyles among women more popular? Also, some women probably had short hair because they sold their long hair to wig makers, so that they could make a bit of extra money if they needed to for some reason!
@eldergeek6077
Жыл бұрын
Gift of the Magi
@tiffanytomasino335
Жыл бұрын
My hair goes all the way down to past my butt now but I have also had it cut short just to my ears… it’s amazing the difference just changing the length of your makes on a day to day. I imagine that’s why that’s one of the things people change the most often. Thank you for sharing
@EdenValentineOfficial
Жыл бұрын
I grew up in a VERY Pentecostal area...a whole community full of women with hair so long is sweeps the floor... growing up as a child...it was always so majestic to me....but short hair is so chic and convenient.
@pheart2381
Жыл бұрын
Beatrix Potter had her hair cut off after a bout of rheumatic fever caused it to fall out in clumps. She hated it because her hat wouldnt stay on in the wind and once blew off into a fountain,and she and her father had to stand there while the park keeper fished it out.
@bellarose1562
Жыл бұрын
I cut my hair very short when I was 16, I have thick curly hair and it took a lot of convincing to my mom over the years to let me cut it. When I eventually did it was incredible! the feeling of the lightness, the wind on my neck, and the maintenance freedom! It is incredibly liberating. I've never been able to successfully commit to long hair after that.
@Art4ArtsSakeVideo
Жыл бұрын
Very thoughtfully researched! Loved the many newspaper clips and photographs from the period. Well done!
@judysummers6270
10 күн бұрын
I remember seeing photos of my great grandmother with very short hair around 1900. My grandmother told me she was delighted to have her hair cut as soon as she could. Hair was heavy and very hot.
@504CreoleCrystal
Жыл бұрын
Is that woman in the thumbnail on the left wearing a short mullet?!? I LOVE it! 😂 Also…she looks A LOT like Kristen Wiig. ETA 13:30 Yes!!! Cornwallis West DEFINITELY had a mullet!!! Apparently this was Lady Patsy Cornwallis-West who was King Edward’s the 8th of England mistress. Also…to read the info you included about cutting hair being a punishment is so interesting! Here in New Orleans they didn’t make Creole women cut our hair but since we “caught the eye” of many French, Spanish and white men…the Tignon Laws of 1786 (an effort to stop placage unions in Louisiana) were passed and made it illegal to wear our hair exposed. Very interesting!
@bethliebman8169
Жыл бұрын
I had heard that Coco Channel had cut off her hair after having singed her long hair on a hot water heater in her bathroom. Coco, being such a trend-setter, set the example and women cut off their hair to match. This story, of course, may be apocryphal, but I like it. BTW, your new cut looks great on you!
@NicoleRudolph
Жыл бұрын
It’s definitely not how the 1910s/20s trend started (look more towards Irene Castle), but may be why she personally had to. All in all I’m planning a video soon about why Chanel basically didn’t do anything she’s credited with and more 😂
@charlottec5802
Жыл бұрын
I was confidently told by a museum guide in the Outer Hebrides (home of Harris Tweed!) that Chanel invented the idea of wearing tweed in high fashion rather than just as country sporting wear. Hmmm... I always take any story regarding Chanel and inventing stuff with a hefty pinch of salt.
@infamoussphere7228
Жыл бұрын
@@NicoleRudolph chanel didn't even invent collaborating with the nazis, though she might have popularised it
@NicoleRudolph
Жыл бұрын
@@infamoussphere7228 This wins my comment of the day
@argusfleibeit1165
Жыл бұрын
@@charlottec5802 Now do Musk.
@danielasarmiento30
Жыл бұрын
The arguments are so familiar to me it's both funny and sad. I had mid back length and went to pixie, and I was told I looked like I was sick and I wouldn't be sen as beautiful by men. Let me tell you, whatever compliments men don't give to my hair is definnitely leveraed by all the compliments women do give me
@user-mv9tt4st9k
Жыл бұрын
How rude of people to tell you that. We have a family friend and every so often she will wear her hair in a pixie cut. I have know her to wear her hair to her shoulders, or around her ears, and now in a pixie she is a lovely as she has always been.
@Teverell
Жыл бұрын
I have short hair because it's easy to deal with. My sister used to ask why I had it short, and I did grow it out (it took two years and the longest I could grow it was to approximately my bra band) and I had it long for her wedding... When I walked past a mirror after getting it cut a few weeks after the wedding, it was one of those 'hello me!' moments. Short hair is 'me' in a way long hair isn't. I loved the pics you put up, especially the young lady on the left at the 13:00 mark - apart from the side parting where mine is centre-parted, that is very much like how I wear my hair! I don't intend to portray an 1880s lady, ever, but if I do fall into a fit of madness, I will gladly point to that picture. If she can do it, I certainly could! Also that Beatrix Potter wore her hair short is a revelation to me! I think Rene Zellweger had a long-hair wig for the film Miss Potter, though I'd have to watch that again to be certain. :D
@lorrainemunoa791
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for acknowledging Indigenous practices and how some of us as groups do prefer long hair on every gender for many reasons. My Dad's hair is nearly as long as mine. I used to like wearing my hair in an almost masculine short cut, but I haven't cut it properly since march 2020, and Culture is one reason I am leaving it long these days. I also do Medieval reenacting so it's fun to have natural Lonnnng hair for that, but when I had super short hair I'd wear a big false braid and/or a veil anyway, so it's true you can make any hair length look historical if you know your history (and sometimes use hairpieces! Very Historical)
@kittymervine6115
Жыл бұрын
also that she put this at the start of her video, not as a little after bit at the end!
@susanmccormick6022
Жыл бұрын
Hi Lorraine,I too am a reenactor.What periods do you cover?I love history & doing archaeology is a great field(often literally)to explore.
@ununuh
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this! I have a photo of a distant relative who had short hair! When I look it up and examine her clothing and figure out her age I am betting it will have been taken around 1885. She had very curly hair (as I do) and I can see why she went for short hair. Not knowing a lot about historic styles, I always assumed that short hair was never stylish for women. Thanks so much for your research!
@drianbgar3603
Жыл бұрын
This makes so much senseee!! Like whenever I research Late 1880s early 1890s pics I would always think "Wow this updos really do look like trendy 2016ish men". And viceversa, I would scroll down instagram and think "all this guys look just like they are wearing late victorian ladies updos" So in a sense, I always though, Why have that luscious beautiful long hair to wear it in such a tight updo? haha I wish people would have had freedom to wear things as they pleased always... even today Thanks for this incredibly informative video! I´ll definitely implement this short hair trend in my victorian illustrations!
@MissSkittlestar
Жыл бұрын
I was always taught that in my mikmaq culture we would cut our and mourning and some ppl would paint their body black the colour or mourning ,I went my whole life as a two spirited person with short hair to please my family and I grew it out and my French grandmother told me to never cut my hair she sees the strength in hair but I do see her with shirt cut or buzz cut and she has no Greg hairs but always bleached her hair idk y she did but I love her
@melissasaint3283
Жыл бұрын
I have seen a photo of my (French Canadian but then living in an urban area in the US) great-great grandmother in her very fashionable youth, in an outfit she had made herself as a seamstress, And while she visibly had long hair in back, plaited and pinned up, the whole front of her head from the ears forward looked very much like a mass of shorn, short waves and curls. My cousin and I, who had never seen anything like this, wondered if this was some kind of optical illusion and took to calling her our great-grandmullet ☺️ what a delight to find this explanation! Based on the genealogical details, the photo was probably taken in the early to mid 1880's.
@annejohnson491
Жыл бұрын
Hi from Australia, l love your shows and looking forward to watching more video next year. Have a great Christmas and a safe New Year.
@isaacraine
Жыл бұрын
well done and thank you! This is very interesting - I would also love to know about shaved heads for women, from nun's to convicts to collaborators to punks - will it ever be "normalised"?' And Nicole, please would you think about making a video on the history of dressing vintage. When and how and why did this start? Thank you so much for all the information you give!
@Lyrielonwind
Жыл бұрын
In some places, some governments have shaved women's heads for humiliation purposes signaling them as no good. Example: the winners of the civil war in Spain on women relatives of the defeated democratic republic defenders.
@origamikiddo2625
Жыл бұрын
1:30 - can attest that having even shoulder length thick hair during COVID last year my hair was actually hurting me at the roots. I had to wash it every or every other day, when normally I can go a few days between shampooing. My hair felt horrible, weird, strawlike, heavy, hurting, got so snarly from reclining in a chair all day and fever sweats day and night for a few days in a row. I was ready to shave it off. Glad I hadn't seen this video and your gorgeous hair then cuz I would have def gone for a pixie cute, you pull it off so well!
@WholeHeartily
Жыл бұрын
I think women with ethereal features, and also those with childlike features look prettiest with short hair. I’m super chubby, so I look best with volume on top and enough length to balance- at least to the chin
@vanessabrossard6141
8 ай бұрын
Thank you for acquainting us with these facts. I had no idea that before the 20"s women had short hair. Thought it was a post-WW1 thing to prove that women had gained equality.
@hereforit2347
Жыл бұрын
@0:38: Didn’t the vast majority of these ladies in the early 19th century have long hair pinned up in back (like the woman in red on the left) and cut short in front to frame the face?
@gummy5862
Жыл бұрын
Honestly that is something that bothers me about history. If hair was just such a nuisance to take care of due to lack of running water and adequate soaps, and it was ALWAYS worn up and under a hat, why not just cut it? You never even get to appreciate the length.
@angelwhispers2060
Жыл бұрын
LOL I love to think that we're discussing this as a fashion trend when it's really just all of these women that had naturally darker hair cutting off the blonde parts so that their hair could grow out and figuring out nice ways to style it in the meantime. That would be one of the greatest iranies of fashion history and anthropology in my opinion and it's just glorious that that is a very real possibility
@anezkajandova76
Жыл бұрын
I have seen it a lot in reenactment, but I don't know if it is historical. You have shorter hair, style the front part as fringe, tie the back part back, and add pre styled hairpieces. So you don't need to do the complicated updo all over again. It seem very practical and posible for upper/upper middle class. But I don't know if they really did it.
@raeb5525
Жыл бұрын
I keep thinking of the part in “Little Woman when Jo cuts and sells her hair instead of asking for money from a relative.
@adriennekushner2492
Жыл бұрын
I've had just about every known hair style. It has been long enough to sit on. I had a Vidal Sasoon barometric cut. It has been naturally straight and permed into something that made me look like Harpo Marks. Right now it is a long pixie. I think this is the way it will stay for a long time. My husband likes it.
@adriennekushner2492
Жыл бұрын
Spell check changed my geometric to barometric, ha ha!
@janinemcmahon218
Жыл бұрын
Victoria Woodhull was as famous a feminist as Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She was the first female stock broker. A journalist at the NY Herald. One of my favorite biographies. She was a real trend setter, cut her hair short for convenience, too busy. 1871. She and her sister were really something
@scrap_donetsk
Жыл бұрын
We would be interested in your 2023 video idea🌿have a nice holiday!🎄
@chardelraconner7324
5 ай бұрын
the irony of the phrase im not studding a length
@remarkablestitches
Жыл бұрын
I've had short hair for years now and it's actually really good to know that if I ever get around to making myself a bustle dress that I don't actually need a wig.
@franglais-riders
Жыл бұрын
My grand mother ( born 1901 in Spain) was a farmhand. While working picking up olives one winter, my aunty, her sister was loosing her hair. They were barely teenagers. My gran decided to shave her sister’s hair completely and if I remember, apply daily olive oil and lemon juice ( abundant in Spain). My aunty had thick (almost ) black hair up to her 80s when she died. Not sure shaving made the difference though but it is funny anecdote. Also farmhands, servants and bottom of the social scale in Spain used to wear their hair long, braided and in a bun. They did not have the luxury of bath or showers to wash so keeping hair like that kept it clean and out of the way. I remember as a child going on summer holiday to my gran, we did not even had running water in the mid 70s in her village. I remember the cart pulled by a lovely donkey, and the driver shouting “Agua” ( water). The women would come out to fill their jars of drinking water. If you had a well in the house, the water would be used for washing up, laundry etc. Drinking water came from several clean wells up in the hills.
@dee-annegordon5959
Жыл бұрын
This makes me want to go through my own collection of photographs to see if I have any short haired ladies hiding among them.
@smallhouseinthemeadow6131
Жыл бұрын
"Short hair in front and long in back". My goodness, women wore the first mulletts🤣And I couldn't stop laughing when you talked about the arguement for long hair, being that men want to play with it. I personally look better with short hair and I think that your hair is so beautiiful.Your color is stunning.
@user-mv9tt4st9k
Жыл бұрын
"Business in the front, party in the back." 😂
@delmaplain5358
Жыл бұрын
When I think of the difficulties in just washing extremely long hair in those days! Then drying, combing, and putting it up, particularly if you are only women in the the home!
@user-mv9tt4st9k
Жыл бұрын
To be fair, hair was likely not washed as often then.
@selecttravelvacations7472
Жыл бұрын
It probably also originated with poor women who cut their hair to sell it to wig makers so wealthier women could look like they had longer, more luxurious hair. Then, short hairstyles took off among the poor and moved up the fashion recognition line. For sure that was a factor. That was a great video btw! Great topic for discussion.
@OstblockLatina
Жыл бұрын
When the hairsalons in Europe closed in I think 2020 due to Covid-19 restrictions for a while, I got myself a cheap electric hair trimmer for sth like 15 Euros and just cut off my hair to approx. 10 mm. length (thanks dad, for passing on that nicely shaped skull to me), repeating the operation more or less once a month. When the salons reopened and IMMEDIATELY raised the prices for their services, I decided to stick with my method. I haven't seen a hairdresser since then and I do not intend to ever again. Saves me a good couple of dozens of Euros every month for things that are more worth it (especially that my hair are really thin and weak anyway and there is literally no point letting them grow long as they are absolutely resistant to styling attempts).
@user-mv9tt4st9k
Жыл бұрын
Our family hairdresser had a stroke a couple of years before the lockdown. My husband has a nice shaving kit so I started cutting my son's hair. It took a long time for me to scissor my own hair, though. I finally did and will not go back to salon cuts and prices.
@Grapesforbananas
Ай бұрын
You have an extinguished sense of fashion and I love that I’m jealous how you described the videos and I loved the videos you have shared. Thank you so much for sharing. ❤❤❤❤
@cathipalmer8217
26 күн бұрын
The right foot of the girl at 6:58 really had me stymied for half a minute!😮😅
@sentimentalcircuscurator
Жыл бұрын
"The trendy middleaged woman with short hair back then, when stared right back at some fool with this claim, and said "so it causes lack electricity to the brain you say ?" (looks the man up and down with steely eyes and a sideways smirk) "I really doubt thats accurate, but in your case, it would explain a lot" (takes some snuff, slams case shut and leaves with the smirk still intact glancing briefly over her shoulder, then an eyeroll for good meassure)" (and yes shes also the kind of lady that drinks her coffee with a sugarcube in her mouth, and the coffee poured unto the saucer sithing it through the cube, because shes classy like that)
@newmoon766
Жыл бұрын
The last time I had my hair cut professionally I was eight. That was 1967. I said I wanted it shoulder length, and the beautician cut it so short you could see my earlobes. Eventually I was able to cut it myself, to keep it at a length where it was not longer than my arms. For logistical purposes. I usually braid it.
@KuK1910
Жыл бұрын
Ms. Rudolph, may I offer for your consideration the most famous case of short hair in the late 1800's - the fictional Violet Hunter from the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches". While the story was written in 1891, it was set, based on the background information, in the mid 1880's - the same time that the Chicago short hair fad was at its peak - (pardon the pun). Also, while the purpose of getting Miss Hunter to cut her hair was to impersonate a young lady, who lost her long hair to a fever, the villain insisted on the haircut, because he and his wife were "faddy" people. Of further interest is the prejudice of the artist, Sidney Paget, against short hair. Paget was the original, contemporary illustrator for the serialized stories, in the Strand Magazine in the early 1890's. He goes out of his way to draw Miss Hunter attractively with long hair, at the beginning of the story, and then presents some of the worst drawings as the Sherlock Holmes illustrator, when she has short hair. You can see what I mean at: en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Strand_Magazine/Volume_3/The_Adventure_of_the_Copper_Beeches, which has the original drawings.
@flygirlfly
Жыл бұрын
I lived through many scorching hot, humid Chicago summers. I bet that those ladies found short hair was immensely freeing. I'd like to know what the temperatures were during those years.
@joydavis5856
Жыл бұрын
I always enjoy your videos 💜 You are forever teaching me something new. Thank you for your hard work
@stillhere1425
Жыл бұрын
Your appearance, mannerisms, voice, and presentation is quite similar to that of Caitlyn Dougherty, of the Society of the Good Death. Not an insult-I’m a big fan.
@user-mv9tt4st9k
Жыл бұрын
I love Caitlyn Dougherty. Her presentation of icky topics is wonderful.
@carriefernandez8705
Жыл бұрын
when I shaved my head a few years ago, my grandmother made it a point to tell me daily that I looked like a convict and cancer patient. I don't talk to her anymore.
@marywebb9127
Жыл бұрын
The truth hurts! Very few people can pull off the shaved head and look attractive.
@almaalzu
Жыл бұрын
This Finnish painter Ellen Thesleff had short hair and she was an icon 🥰🙌
@zoyadulzura7490
Жыл бұрын
I went into this expecting a discussion of the Industrial Revolution and how women would keep their hair short for safety around machinery.
@user-mv9tt4st9k
Жыл бұрын
As one of the few girls, and few people with long hair, I learned that in woodshop. As a result, I put my hair up.
@origamikiddo2625
Жыл бұрын
18:40, wow I love that hair and the lady is so gorgeous! Her outfit and everything!
@aimpat34
Ай бұрын
The last Tsar's family, when his daughters got measles their heads were shaved. The interesting photos are those of the girls as their hair was growing back.
@laurenschiller1804
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, I have definitely cut my hair short after deciding that if I was going to wear it up all the time to keep it out of my way I might as well chop it all off.
@user-mv9tt4st9k
Жыл бұрын
That was my mother's rationale. She called me to the hairdresser the day he cut her waist-length wide waved glorious dark blond hair to above her ears. It was not as gorgeous. I screamed. 😂
@TikiHi77
Жыл бұрын
There was a show, think it was a Jane Austen redo in the 2020's and I can't remember which one. One of female characters was blonde and had a short pixie type cut. No one said anything. It was never mentioned. She was a very nice, helpful character for the main female character when she came to the city. You know, making introductions and showing her the way in society. I found it odd, but awesome. Also, my thought is it would be easier to have shorter hair because richer women wore wigs and hair pieces. So you style the hair piece or wig instead of your hair. Then there's the less fortunate selling their hair and hygiene.
@Gizathecat2
Жыл бұрын
I have a photo of my grandfather’s sister and two female cousins with really weird hair styles. They were born in the 1860s, so they would have been in their late teens and early twenties. I’ll have to dig the photo and look at it again. One of them looked like she was wearing a marching band uniform too.
@janleonard3101
3 ай бұрын
The shingle cut is mentioned in L.M. Montgomery's "The Blue Castle" which was first published in 1926 and is set in the early 1900s in the Muskoka region of Ontario, Canada. "...she had shingled her hair. This was before the day of bobs and was regarded as a wild, unheard-of proceeding- unless you had typhoid. ... Barney cut the hair, square off at the back of Valancy's neck, bringing it down in a short black fringe over her forehead."
@mariansmith7694
Жыл бұрын
My grandmother cut her hair off. The Bob was so popular. She never grew it long again.
@SpanishEclectic
Жыл бұрын
I also thought that either lice, or cutting the hair to sell could be options. I love your laugh over the interesting opinions from the period. Thank you for finding so many great photos. I adore old photos. Because of the longer time it took, people were usually serious looking, with a contemplative air about them. I always wonder what they were like, and what they were thinking. :)
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