Figure 1.--These children were photographed in Salem, C (Connecticut) about 1905. Both children have identical ringlet hair styles. The boy's ringlets are shorter, perhaps because he was younger and his hair was not as long as his sister's hair. Click on the image for more informatin about the children. Image courtesy of the RG collection. |
Some children had their hair styled identically. This of course was most common for like-gender siblings. There are numerous instances in the photographic record when like gender siblings, both brothers and sisters, had their hair styled identically, especially when they were close in age. Younger brothers, however, might also have identical hair styling with their sisters, although this was less common. Differences in age and hair type, however, meant that this was less common than coordinated styling--at least for the well to do. There are fewer examples of different gender childrn having their hair styled idntically or even coordinated. Here with different gender children, almost always the combination is a little boy an older sister. There are very few exceptions to this.
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