Married women wore white frilled day caps indoors Fig.

1830 women's hairstyles. 1840 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920. Precious stones were one item freely worn in the hair and arranged by the court hair-dressers in the Regency style mixing curls and plaits in an indescribable manner. Hair parted either in the centre of in a V shape.

The hair was separated about ten centimeters from the front with a part running from ear to ear. Occasionally they curled the sides but bangs werent in fashion. Romanticism influences womens fashion.

1840 1840 From the movie Young Victoria 1840 - 1856. Occassionaly the plaitsloops were worn insetad of bunches of curls image 86. 1830s fashion in Western and Western-influenced fashion is characterized by an emphasis on breadth initially at the shoulder and later in the hips in contrast to the narrower silhouettes that had predominated between 1800 and 1820.

She wears the dress of the 1830s and a similar comb with upstanding loops which protrude from behind her high fashionable hairdressing. 1857 Louisa May Alcott age 25 so not just the older women liked this do. Hair dressed on top of the head in braids and loops.

Womens costume featured larger sleeves than were worn in any period before or since which were accompanied by elaborate hairstyles and large hats. Flat on the top of the head. This hairstyle was grand and imposing and formed with powder and pomatum.

A trend of frills and tucks began in the previous decade but in the early 1820s this blossomed into elaborate trims of lace and flounces puffs and rouleaux which were tubes of. The typical process of 1830 hairdressing began by parting the hair into three sections. The most modish hair fashion was the Apollo Knot a striking style tending to lean to one side.