Figure 1.--This American boy wears a few short ringlets with his hair knot with his Fauntleroy suit and lace collar.
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Figure 1.--This American boy wears a few short ringlets with his hair knot with his Fauntleroy suit and lace collar. |
We note these top-knot hair styles as part as a wild range of different styles. The top-knot style involved sweeping a boys hair into a knot (bun or rinlet) on the top of the head. Sometimes the hair was swept back without a top knot or ringlet. One HBC contributor reports that one style was a part on each side and the hair in the middle made into a curl. These hair knots were worn in several different variants including both relatively short hair and long ringlet curls.
One feature of many hair styles with these knots are
front bangs. The bangs were commonly used when ringlets were formed with hair knots. The bangs allowed the hair at the sides to be formed into ringlets. Often the front haor was drawn up in the top curl and as a result there were no front bangs, but as seen here some of these styles did have bangs (figure 1).
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Another common variant was ringlets. The most
common variation was those worn both with and without ringlet curls.
The knot itself required quite a bit of hair as it took away from the
amount of hair which could be used for ringlets. This probably explains why the style became less commion in the late 1880s. Mothers much opreferred the ringlets and the hair knots detracted from them.
The top-knot curl was normally formed from the hair at the front side and crown. This meant that often there was hair at the back of the head not used for the top curl. Some times this back hair was formed into ringlets. We note, hoever, that in some cases ringlets were not formed. The hair could be styled in a variety of ways. In some cases it does not appeared to be styled arvall, in sharp contrast to thevcarefullyb styled top knot.
A common style in the 1850s and 60s was to sweep the hair from both sides. We are not sure how mothers had kept the hair swept up. They must have used some kind of hair dressing product or even fat to make it stand up like that for a portrait. We are not sure how common this style was or if it was worn primarily for a portrait. We note a 3 year old boy in 1865 with this style, but do not yet have enough images to filly ssess it. kThis style was commonly used when side ringlets were not employed.
This style is vry simiilar to the "sweep up" described above. This was a common style in the 1850s and 60s. The style was to sweep the hair from both sides up into the hair knot (bun or ringlet). This style was commonly used when side ringlets were not employed, in par because so much of the hair was employed in the top ringlet. The difference from the "seep up" is that rather than being left in a kind of vertical sweep was done into a top ringlet or bun.
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