The VERY Complicated History of Women with Short Hair

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 https://shannonselin.com/2015/05/coiffure-a-la-titus/

“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” https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2013/08/a-hairy-subject-secrecy-shame-and-victorian-wigs.html

Smithsonian Magazine, “The Secret History of Buying and Selling Hair” https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/secret-history-buying-and-selling-hair-180961080/

Kristin Holt, “Victorian Hair Augmentation” http://www.kristinholt.com/archives/5010

“An American girl, and her four years in a boys' college” by Olive San Louie Anderson https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015062870335&view=1up&seq=13

The Los Angeles Herald

Khanya Mtshali, “The radical history of the headwrap” https://timeline.com/headwraps-were-born-out-of-slavery-before-being-reclaimed-207e2c65703b

“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 https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/268514/ellen-thesleffi-paint-like-a-god/

“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” https://bglh-marketplace.com/2014/07/shocking-history-why-women-of-color-in-the-1800s-were-banned-from-wearing-their-hair-in-public/

“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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