Figure 1.--These children from Gowrie, Iowa had their portrait taken with what looks like identical hair styles. All three children seem to have very similar hair styles, butthe boy's hair is shorter. Note that he has a center part. The boy is on a wooden rocking horse. On the back we can read "S Millson-Harcourt-198" and card is stamped "CHIAROOSCURO, NO. 2-8147". Millson Harcourt may be the mother's name, here we are unsure. |
Just what an identical style is can be more difficult to judge than it may seem. Here we will classify hair styles as identical if it looks like the mother tries her best to style the children identically and that differences are primarily due to natural differences in the type or length of the hair--admitedly sometmes difficult to judge. We note children with ringlet curls, for example, of differnt length but identical styling. Here the differences may simply be that younger child does not have hair as long as the older child. Or the mother may believe that really long hair is more appropriate for girls than boys.
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