Women’s hair styles tended to mirror the lines of their gowns. As skirts were drawn back in the mid to late 1860s, so the hair was also drawn up and back to reveal the ears, for so long covered, but kept flat on top, with curls or a small twist at the back of the head replicating the back interest on the dress. With the first movements in the early 1870s the hair was lifted higher, sloping upward from forehead, then flowing to the shoulders in twisted plaits or curls, or both, or occasionally worn in a chignon.
For late Victorian hairstyles the curls moved towards the back, they may have used a little bit of padding and little curly fridges came into style. Late Victorians had big fancy hats that were popular and quite elaborate. It is said that they thought that the longer a women sat having her hair done the better the hair dresser. In 1870 there was height at the sides and the top and curls coming down the back, they used flowers as decoration. Towards the late Victorian era we see things like the Marcel wave and the Apollo knot/bun hairstyle. In great expectations as Estella gets older we see the different hairstyles, as she get older her hair gets more romantic, with looser curls and a slightly off parting.
In class we created our own version of late Victorian hairstyle, a step by step guide of how we did this is shown below:
Step by step creating late Victorian Hairstyles:
· Section the hair for a middle parting.
· Then section a front part of the hair from a middle part to create a bun.
· With the middle section of hair put into a pony and curl, then curl the curls round and make a sort of bun, making sure to not make a typical round style and allowing some of the curls to look slightly messy
· With the bottom section of hair also curl using curling tong, pin some of these curls up to the bun section but leave some to hang loose.
· With the front section of hair curl away from the head, then pin away from the face with slight raise, as seen in images below.
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