Hair was never cut unless if suffered with a server illness.
They would have a very bad damadged hair condition from the hot irons they would use to style their own hair, as they didn't have heat protector back then to protect the hair front the heat.
The hair often had an unpleasant odour that had to be masked with heavy perfumes to how they would burn it using hot irons and never wash it very frenquently.
Curly hair was meant to indicate a sweeter cutter look, while straight haired girls were considered the reverse or even awkward.
A woman's hair was very important to the overall effect she was able to make.
Once reaching the age when the hair could be put up it was a rite of passage in her life, and often there were several interim stages, where a plait would be loosely put up with a ribbon, to signify the coming event.
In the Victorians they used a lot of hair pieces to make the hair look big and fuller, they would get hair weaves of the exact hair colour to match it in with their own hair to create bigger hair dos as wearing make up was not allowed they would then make them selves look elegant by creating big hair detailed dos.
Big hats where also worn in the Victorian era as elegance and a hair accessories.
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