Can anybody explain the Navy Blazer? Isn't that like trying to explain Mom and Apple Pie? How can you go wrong with a navy blazer? Wentworth Tradd shows you how you really shouldn't and how to be absolutely...
This is the first of two guides I shall write on Spanish mantilla combs or Peinetas. In this first one I will be concentrating upon the historical aspect of how they developed. I shall also show illustrations...
In this guide I describe the development of ornamental combs and similar hair accesories from their beginnings in the late 18th century to the late 1830s. In British history this coincides with the periods...
Here I discuss the changes in fashion and hairdressing, linking them to events in the wider social world which affected the design of ornamental hair combs in the period 1870 - 1880. This account draws upon...
This guide discusses hairdressing fashion and hair accessories as depicted in Victorian photographic portraits during the period 1880-1900. By the 1880s the main types of photographic media that collectors...
This guide, the second on the Victorians, deals with the so-called High Victorian period of 1860-70. This account draws upon sources by Norma Hague (1982 1985) which are cited in the reading list at the...
In this discussion I will examine the hair accessories which were fashionable in the Edwardian era, which lasted from 1901 – 1910. This account draws upon sources by Norma Hague (1985) which are cited in the...