Figure 1.--This 6th plate American cased Daguerreotype shows a teenage girl with a molded hair style. There is no information about who she is, but the portrait is dated--'Aug 1849'. |
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We are not sure how to describe this style. The only term that comes to mind is a molded style. We will use this term until we can find the proper name for it. Some of the examples seem to be slicked dowm hair, basically modeled on the head. Other examples show molded styles that do not just follow the contours of the head, but jut out to the sides, but not so much the top or back of the head. It seems to be a style of short hair well off the shoulders, some times even above the ears. We do not know how much hair was use to bulk up the molding in the examples that do not follow the head contours. We see examples both in America and Europe, although we are not sure of which contries besides Britain. As best we can tell, it was a mid-19th century Victorian style. We do not know when this style first appered. We are not sure about the 1830s. We see examples in the 1840s and 50s. It may have continued into the early-60s, but was no longer very common.
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