Victorian and Edwardian hairstyles

[Mignon190034]

I thought i should start a thread on the hairstyles the old royals used to wear
and i'll start off with a few pictures







thats all i can find right now hopefully i can find more interesting pictures with hairstyles....to see how they are done

[Jaya]

Originally Posted by Mignon190034

I thought i should start a thread on the hairstyles the old royals used to wear
and i'll start off with a few pictures

thats all i can find right now hopefully i can find more interesting pictures with hairstyles....to see how they are done

Hi Mignon,
are you that?{slight of figure?}
These hairstyles become delicate features or they make features look delicate. They are very feminine indeed. They take the coarse shadows away from the face. I love them as they are romatic.

[Mignon190034]

yeah....i agree.....i would like to try and figure out how to achieve some of these hairstyles....for like halloween or something









another thing is the outfits in which they wore ....so pretty ...i'd kill to have some of those dresses

[Mignon190034]

the children used to be dressed very prim and proper back then....maybe we could post pictures of victorian childrens dresses as well...well that and edwardian

[magnik]

Few links about Queen Victoria's time:
QUEEN VICTORIA: IMAGES OF HER WORLD
Early Victorian Hairstyles and Hats 1840-70
Mid Victorian Hairstyles and Hats 1870-1900
Victorian Images

Edwardian hair:
Edwardian Hair and Hats
Historical costumes: Edwardian

and few more:
Early Hairstyle Gallery
Eras of Elegance - Historical Hairstyles

[Jaya]

Originally Posted by Mignon190034

yeah....i agree.....i would like to try and figure out how to achieve some of these hairstyles....for like halloween or something

another thing is the outfits in which they wore ....so pretty ...i'd kill to have some of those dresses

To achieve these hairstyles you need a spiral perm and below shoulder length hair. Then you need me to put your hair up so that the front comes forward.Believe it or not I used to do my hair like that when I was younger.
It is also called "the Gibson girl " look.
For the inverted role which we see Scarlett O'Hara wearing in GWTW which frames the face women had and I have a piece for hair to wrap the hair in... and around the face. This was repeated in the forties hairdos and early eighties for romatics like us...

[Ygraine]

Those hairstyles can't be done without a lot of padding called "rats" and hair pieces

Alexandra and her daughter in law May always wore false fringes which were very popular at the time as alot of women did not want to cut into their own hair

Sissi the Austrian empress used to make fun of her daughter in law Stephanie for wearing hair pieces but Sissi was very lucky to have all that hair of her own

[Dierna23]

Great thread, I adore Victorian and Edwardian hairstlyes.

http://www.freewebs.com/tatianaroman...autyAlix21.jpg
http://www.mimifroufrou.com/scenteds...nAlexandra.JPG
http://www.oldukphotos.com/graphics/...ess%20Mary.jpg (although its more post-edwardian, isn't it?)
http://www.alexanderpalace.org/palac.../alix/pic1.jpg
http://vatopaidi.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/ella2.jpg