Yes, women had short hair before the 1920's! But there's a lot more to the story than that. Come learn with me!
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Sources:
“Femininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature and Society: From Dagger-Fans to Suffragettes” By Emelyne Godfrey
The Delineator Volume 98, 1921
“The Hairdresser’s Journal”, March 1863
“Old English Peasant Costumes: From Boadicea to Queen Victoria, Suitable for Fancy Fairs, Costume Balls and Bazaars…” By Marie Schild
“The Arts of Beauty, Or, Secrets of a Lady's Toilet: With Hints to Gentlemen on the Art of Fascinating” By Lola Montez
Godey's Magazine, Volumes 62-63, 1861
“Representations of Hair in Victorian Literature and Culture” By Galia Ofek
Shannon Selin, Coiffure à la Titus [ Ссылка ]
“Jane Austen and Her Times” By Geraldine Edith Mitton
“Historical Wig Styling: Ancient Egypt to the 1830s” By Allison Lowery
British Library Blog, “A Hairy Subject – Secrecy, Shame and Victorian Wigs” [ Ссылка ]
Smithsonian Magazine, “The Secret History of Buying and Selling Hair” [ Ссылка ]
Kristin Holt, “Victorian Hair Augmentation” [ Ссылка ]
“An American girl, and her four years in a boys' college” by Olive San Louie Anderson [ Ссылка ]
The Los Angeles Herald
Khanya Mtshali, “The radical history of the headwrap” [ Ссылка ]
“Resistance and Empowerment in Black Women's Hair Styling” By Elizabeth Johnson
“Slave Hair and African American Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries” Shane White and Graham White, The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 61, No. 1
Helsinki Art Museum, Ellen Thesleff [ Ссылка ]
“The Power of Women's Hair in the Victorian Imagination” Elisabeth G. Gitter
“CULTURE
SHOCKING HISTORY: WHY WOMEN OF COLOR IN THE 1800S WERE BANNED FROM WEARING THEIR HAIR IN PUBLIC” [ Ссылка ]
“Gay L.A” by Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons
“Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940” George Chauncey
“Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott
“Les Miserables” by Victor Hugo
Not Your Momma’s History- Cheyney McKnight
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