Films With Early-Late Victorian Hairstyles ♰

North & South - 1851 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417349/
North & South -1851

North and South is a four part adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's love story of Margaret Hale, a middle class southerner who is forced to move to the northern town of Milton.

This series operates on many levels. At the heart of the series is the tempestuous relationship between Margaret Hale, a young woman from a southern middle class family who finds herself uprooted to the north, and John Thornton, a formerly poverty-stricken cotton mill owner terrified of losing the viability of his business. Around them are class struggles between the workers and mill owners and ideological struggles between the industrial North and the agrarian South. After moving North, Margaret's father befriends his student Mr. Thornton. 

Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417349/

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This is quite an early to mid Victorian hairstyle. All of the hair is up and the parting is in the middle. We can see the curls being pinned up to create this 'bun' look, at the back. This hair style is very feminine and comfortable for a woman. It goes well with the Victorian outfits and the idea of an 'ideal woman' as it is not too outgoing and loud. Its subtle and appropriate, especially with its lack of decoration. The man's hair has been kept very simple. It is thick, black and the hair cut is very average. However the side burns have been created to create this 'Posh' effect that suggests something about the character in this film. 

Cranford - 1840

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In the 1840s, Cranford is ruled by the ladies. They adore good gossip; and romance and change is in the air, as the unwelcome grasp of the Industrial Revolution rapidly approaches their beloved rural market-town. 

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In the photos above we can see a lot of hair up-do's which were very popular in the early period of the Victorian era. The hats remind me more of the working class as they represent the fact that those women simply did not have enough time to do their hair in the morning. Such a modern excuse,ey. 

Our Mutual Friend - 1860

Intertwining tales of love, greed, and secret identities in Charles Dickens's 1860s London.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144727/

"The tongues of London high society gossips begin to wag when John Harmon --a young man whose inheritance depended on his marrying a woman he had never met-- is found dead in the River Thames. The fortune passes into the hands of the working-class Boffins, who take into their new home both Bella Wilfer (Harmon's would-be bride), and a mysterious secretary known as Rokesmith. Meanwhile, Lizzie Hexam, the daughter of the boatman suspected of Harmon's murder, is pursued by two suitors: obsessive and self-righteous Bradley Headstone and roguish and lethargic Eugene Wrayburn. An expansive and varied cast of characters create an epic intertwining tale."

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By looking at the photo on the right we can see the family is quite wealthy.. the clothes and all the accessories included in the photo, i.e. th hat in the middle represents higher class.

These series do not represent the Victorian era when it comes to hairstyles very clearly- they are all mostly hidden under hats or head pieces very popular in that particular era.