I think my dad's mustache cup was a gag gift; I've certainly never known him to use it.
Apollo Knot: Wow, that's... well outside of the current notion of fashionable. More dignified (by contemporary standards) than what I had been thinking, but not by a lot.
Language really, really is! As far as coincidence goes, chinook-the-trade-language had a pretty wide-ranging geographic spread, and the diaspora area for chinuk wawa was similarly large. Moreover, 'skookum' was one of the more common works to be picked up by Anglophones. So it's not that shocking to run across 'skookum' in the context of American patent medicines, which very much enjoyed claiming a Native provenance. And yet it did catch my eye.
Yeah, I'm usually pretty low-key about my hair, too, usually just a rope or a bun, although sometimes two pigtails. (Plaits are scratchier than I like.) I used to just do a plaited bun for dress-up, but that's starting to look less "attractively grown-up" nowadays and more "severe and matronly."
I don't really know what I'm looking for! Something softer around the face (although probably not so full as an Edwardian pompadour), and also a bit decorative. And which will also stay put through a wedding and reception. A few of the styles in the Kathryn Marie video above might work, but I'll have to experiment. (And also figure out how bobby pins work!)
But while I was experimenting yesterday, I tried a Gibson tuck, which I liked pretty well, except that it left my hair a rat's nest afterward. I also tried the Newport coiffure in the Delineator article. (Although without fussing about with a curling iron, because I'm not strictly sure that I've owned one since high-school.) The Newport coiffure was easy-peasy, although it's right on the edge of being odd-looking by contemporary standards. But then again the checkout clerk at the grocery store yesterday had muttonchops, so maybe I'll fit right in with the hipsters now? WHO KNOWS FASHION IS HARD.
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Date: 2017-07-02 10:51 pm (UTC)Apollo Knot: Wow, that's... well outside of the current notion of fashionable. More dignified (by contemporary standards) than what I had been thinking, but not by a lot.
Language really, really is! As far as coincidence goes, chinook-the-trade-language had a pretty wide-ranging geographic spread, and the diaspora area for chinuk wawa was similarly large. Moreover, 'skookum' was one of the more common works to be picked up by Anglophones. So it's not that shocking to run across 'skookum' in the context of American patent medicines, which very much enjoyed claiming a Native provenance. And yet it did catch my eye.
Yeah, I'm usually pretty low-key about my hair, too, usually just a rope or a bun, although sometimes two pigtails. (Plaits are scratchier than I like.) I used to just do a plaited bun for dress-up, but that's starting to look less "attractively grown-up" nowadays and more "severe and matronly."
I don't really know what I'm looking for! Something softer around the face (although probably not so full as an Edwardian pompadour), and also a bit decorative. And which will also stay put through a wedding and reception. A few of the styles in the Kathryn Marie video above might work, but I'll have to experiment. (And also figure out how bobby pins work!)
But while I was experimenting yesterday, I tried a Gibson tuck, which I liked pretty well, except that it left my hair a rat's nest afterward. I also tried the Newport coiffure in the Delineator article. (Although without fussing about with a curling iron, because I'm not strictly sure that I've owned one since high-school.) The Newport coiffure was easy-peasy, although it's right on the edge of being odd-looking by contemporary standards. But then again the checkout clerk at the grocery store yesterday had muttonchops, so maybe I'll fit right in with the hipsters now? WHO KNOWS FASHION IS HARD.