American Hair Styles: Long Uncurled Hair--Medium Lengths



Figure 1.--Here we see an unidentified boy wearing a Fauntleroy suit with long uncurled hair. We are not sure what kind of cap he is holding. The hair below the shoulders, but if curled would be shoulder length. We wonder if his mother sometimes did his hair in ringlets. He looks to be about 5-year old. Put your cursor on the image to see his brother who looks to about 7 years old. That helps to date the image. The cabinet card portrait looks to have been done in the 1890s. The studio was Hughes in Detroit, Micjigan.

The second length of uncurld hair were lengths from below the ears to the shoulders. These lengths were less common, but we note many boys with them during the Fauntlertoy era (1885-1905). The hair had to be grown to some length for ringlets to be formed. Here the hair for American boys was usually done in ringlet curls. Long uncurled hair was much less common in America, but we see more examples in Europe. We would say that more than 80 percent of the boys with long hair in the photgraohic record during the Fauntleroy era had their hair done in ringlets. This leads to several questions. Did this mean thi that their hair was usually done ringlets or did some mothers just do the ringlets for the portrait. As most of the photogaphs were studio portraits at the time, this is difficult to asess. Or by the same token, did the boys with long hair without ringlets some times have ringlets done depebding on mother's schedule or whim. Here we mostly have the photographic record to go on because we have not found any written or publihed material addrssing these issues. On would think that a formal studio is one of the circumstances for whchnmothr would most likely do the ringlets. This length was also popular in the late-20th century (1970s-80s), motivated in part by rock bands. but not curled. And unlike the earlier appearance of long hair, it was worn by older boys and teenagers.








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