Heh, I feel like anything I might say is anticlimatic after Okapi's comment, but then again, you might welcome that. :-)
This whole thing was fascinating. Mandatory military moustaches! (And servants were required to be clean-shaven!) Moustache frames! Spring-loaded fake beards! (Which were epic, apparently. From one of the links: the device covered “the head, behind the ears, the forehead, the temple, the top of the cheek bones, and down some part of the cheek…") MUSTACHE SPOONS. (I don’t find mustache cups surprising; my dad has one. But mustache spoons! They look like a nightmare to clean.)
Were you able to find any images of Victoria's "Apollo Loop"? (I tried, but no love.) Because I'm picturing an effect like bunny ears, and that can't be right?
And only because it caught my eye: at the link for L-O-N-G Victorian Hair, there’s an ad for “Skookum Hair Grower” being sold out of New York: ‘skookum’ is a chinuk wawa word for strong. (Chinuk wawa is a local-to-me indigenous creole.)
And oh look, same link: cocaine is good for growing great hair and preventing dandruff! No wonder Holmes' hair stayed so dark for so long... ;-)
And I appreciated this advice in the Delineator article: It is advisable to remove the dress bodice and assume a combing sack or towel before beginning to arrange the hair, that the arms may move without restraint; and it is also well to sit during the entire process, and thus save one's strength and, possibly, one's patience as well. To arrange an elaborate coiffure properly requires considerable time, patience and skill, and if the operation is allowed to unduly tax one‘s physical strength, the result will be a change for the worse in the expression of the face that will detract not a little from the general appearance. My hair "only" comes down to my thighs, but if a hairdo is intricate enough I want to go take a nap halfway through, because it starts to feel like I've been holding my arms above-and-behind my head since the beginning of time.
Also, thanks to you, I spent a good chunk of yesterday reading and watching hairdo tutorials. I've been needing to, because I've got a thing coming up for which I'll need fancy hair, but I've been avoidant avoidant avoidant. So thank you for the assist!
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This whole thing was fascinating. Mandatory military moustaches! (And servants were required to be clean-shaven!) Moustache frames! Spring-loaded fake beards! (Which were epic, apparently. From one of the links: the device covered “the head, behind the ears, the forehead, the temple, the top of the cheek bones, and down some part of the cheek…") MUSTACHE SPOONS. (I don’t find mustache cups surprising; my dad has one. But mustache spoons! They look like a nightmare to clean.)
Were you able to find any images of Victoria's "Apollo Loop"? (I tried, but no love.) Because I'm picturing an effect like bunny ears, and that can't be right?
And only because it caught my eye: at the link for L-O-N-G Victorian Hair, there’s an ad for “Skookum Hair Grower” being sold out of New York: ‘skookum’ is a chinuk wawa word for strong. (Chinuk wawa is a local-to-me indigenous creole.)
And oh look, same link: cocaine is good for growing great hair and preventing dandruff! No wonder Holmes' hair stayed so dark for so long... ;-)
And I appreciated this advice in the Delineator article:
It is advisable to remove the dress bodice and assume a combing sack or towel before beginning to arrange the hair, that the arms may move without restraint; and it is also well to sit during the entire process, and thus save one's strength and, possibly, one's patience as well. To arrange an elaborate coiffure properly requires considerable time, patience and skill, and if the operation is allowed to unduly tax one‘s physical strength, the result will be a change for the worse in the expression of the face that will detract not a little from the general appearance.
My hair "only" comes down to my thighs, but if a hairdo is intricate enough I want to go take a nap halfway through, because it starts to feel like I've been holding my arms above-and-behind my head since the beginning of time.
Also, thanks to you, I spent a good chunk of yesterday reading and watching hairdo tutorials. I've been needing to, because I've got a thing coming up for which I'll need fancy hair, but I've been avoidant avoidant avoidant. So thank you for the assist!