Vintage Hair

**Elistariel** · September 15th, 2008, 10:03 PM

I came across this the other day and I have to share it. Not only does it have photos of vintage hairstyles, it also has how-to directions!

I can't wait till my hair is long enough to do a psyche knot. I so want to wear my hair in that style (keeping hair pretty) with those kinds of accessories.

http://frazzledfrau.tripod.com/titanic/hair.htm

Does anyone else know of other sites? You know that have directions and not just photos?

**spidermom** · September 15th, 2008, 10:23 PM

Oh wow; terrific find! Now I can try those styles, too. I really appreciate it.

**Angellen** · September 15th, 2008, 11:59 PM

Oh, fabulous! I was crossing my fingers as I opened the thread that it would be this sort of vintage style and I'm so glad you found this site! I'm hoping I'll be able to experiment with these tomorrow afternoon.

Thanks!

**Iphinoe** · September 16th, 2008, 12:08 AM

What fascinates me is the instructions on hair care, like "do not wash more than once every three weeks" and "massage the scalp each night to get the goo off and brush it away", even "do not use heat on your hair, air-dry it" which sounds like the sorts of things LHCers would do and the rest of the modern world would squawk at.

**Lady Verity** · September 16th, 2008, 05:14 AM

Every girl may not be blessed with the abundance of hair she may desire

Ain't that just the truth?

I absolutely love the photographs. I wonder how many Edwardian girls sat in front of their mirrors struggling with these styles.

**pariate** · September 16th, 2008, 05:21 AM

Well done! I love articles like this. Thank you for sharing

**~~Shanarana~~** · September 16th, 2008, 06:14 AM

Hope if someone does one of those styles that they post a pic.

**Silver & Gold** · September 16th, 2008, 06:17 AM

What an interesting site. Thanks for sharing.

**Tangles** · September 16th, 2008, 08:02 AM

I love how they already warned against heat styling in 1911. The thing I thought was weird was that they said it was bad to sleep with your hair up... hmm.

**misstwist** · September 16th, 2008, 08:05 AM

I've had those sites bookmarked for quite a long time. My hair was too short to work really well with them when I first found them. Should work better soon but I haven't tried recently.

I have other links like that. I'll add them after I dig around in my bookmarks.

ETA:

Okay, it looks like I haven't bookmarked most of my info, but printed it to pdf and stuck it in my hairstyles file so I can't point anybody to it.

I have a not very good link by Anne of Green Gables fans that you may want to look at, but the directions are pretty elementary to anyone who has been hanging out here for a while. Beware, backcombing is advised in this link. http://www.geocities.com/dashofsalt.geo/fg/gibson.html

I remember that I got my best results for late victorian and edwardian hairstyles by searching things like "psyche knot" and "pompadour."

ETA:

Wait a minute! Also try this one. http://www.intimelyfashion.com/hair/main.html Not a lot of styles right now but she promises more are on the way.