Victorian hairstyles cosplay: up-dos and down-don'ts
In the Victorian era I'm cosplaying as a 19th Century Lady Naturalist citizen scientist, "letting one's hair down was commonly seen as brazen and immodest, even sinful." It was straight up-do and down-don't, because, dear teacake nibbling ladyfriends, you didn't want to be seen as an artist's hussy. Like, oh, say, Dante Rossetti's:
Oooga a-oooga. |
Unfortunately, a month before I began the happiness project that is 19th Century Lady Naturalist, I shaved my head. Classic #Victorianladyhairstylefail. Classic Bastos. It's going to take at least a year to grow out according to BuzzFeed and here are the 21 things I should expect.
Hair no can do. But, ladyfriends, one can aim for a rose in a glass and an off-the-shoulder nightie while collecting local climate change data for Project Budburst, "a national network of citizen scientists monitoring plants as the seasons change." |
The queen on the morning of her asccession is the look I'm going for as I walk the stormwater retention pond in the heavily-developed Baltimore suburbs monitoring dragonflies' "presence, emergence, and behaviors" for Project Pond Watch. |
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