i just saw your post about modern vs historical hairstyles and hwo most historical women would've worn their hair up/covered - I was wondering if you have any favorite historical hairstyles you could share? I'm an artist and not very good at looking for historical style references XD anyway no worries if you're not feeling like it
Sure! I have some faves (whether I can actually do them myself is another matter- not very good at hairstyling, and my hair is too fine to do some of them without adding falls or something. so was a lot of their hair at the time, to be fair, but I don't have energy to fuss with false hair)
Note that these are images of white women/women with Euro-textured hair because that's what the fashion plates tended to depict, and those were most of the people with the money to have their portraits painted. Women of color with different hair textures living in the west (who had the wherewithal to keep up with trends) seem to have done their best to follow the same hair fashions as their white counterparts, until around the 1960s when you start to see the rise of distinct hairstyles based on one's own heritage
working-class women of any race also generally knew at least the basic shapes of popular hairstyles, unless they were VERY isolated. many adapted trendy styles to suit their needs- I've seen plenty of images of factory workers for example, that are perfectly easy to date based on bun placement, bangs vs. no bangs, where the hair volume is concentrated, etc.
but for peak This Was The Style Ideal...it's images of wealthy white women all the way down. unfortunately
1690s
1740s-50s
c. 1800, the "coiffure a la Titus" that was briefly fashionable alongside the more popular Long Hair Up With Ringlets Around The Face look
1867
Early 1870s. note that, while trailing styles were more common for women at this point than any other before or since in the 19th century, this is a bit more Down than most women's day looks would have been, for practicality reasons. Nevertheless, if someone wants an accurate style that's close-ish to the classic Half-Up Olde Timey Hair(TM), early 1870s could be a way to go!
Early 1910s
Hope those give you a starting point!
