Figure 1.--This unidentified Daguerreotype is undated. We would guess it was taken in the 1840s. Notice that te daugher wears a more a simple hair do and not the exagerated styule her nother wears. |
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Hair styles like clothing fashions go in and out of style over time. Some hair styles are unique to specific decades. Others styles are are not so specuically associated with speific decades, but were worn over longer periods. Of course assesing girls hair styles is different than adult women's styles. Commonly girls' syles are very basic, much kess elabirare than aukt style. Often they are not even attempted. Probably the fancies style fir girls was ringlet curls. This was atyle for girls, and sometimes for boys, over an extebded period, but varied in popularity from decade to decade. The girl on the previous page is a good example. We have some information on historical era, but prinmarily after arge numbers of images only become available in the mid-19th century becayuse of the invention of photography. Of cource photography at first only appeard in a few Western countries. Gradually we see more and nore images and from countries around the world. This especially true by the 19th centiry, but it is only after World War II that we begin to see really large numbers of images from Third World countries.
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