However it was permitted at balls or dances to wear ringlet curls.

1860s women's ball hairstyles. I guess there is just so much you can do casual hairstyles dont seem to change much 1880. The front hair was worn in curls or loops. Her blouse sleeves or engageantes are full over her lower arms 1861.

These elaborate hairstyles became so popular even women who lacked the long and flowing hair to don them would use false hair which came in ready-to-use ringlets plaits tufts and pads. The woman wears modest side rolls with a decorative comb over a braided back bun. Her hair is parted in the center rolled or turned up at the sides and decorated with flowers.

Morning cap or breakfast cap was worn worn in the early part of the Victorian era by all women young unmarried and married women later just by married women and since the 1860s or 1870s mainly by older married women. In the early 1860s women wore their hair parted in the center and smoothly combed back into a chignon sometimes featuring small curls or braids above the ears Cunnington 244. Even curls generally were pinned into place to keep them smooth.

Granted the women with bangs had them curled or slicked to the side but they did actually exist. Rolls or waves at the side contained at the back with a net over it. The back hair woven into three faux-braids.

With braids and many ornamnents. Going to church or town or riding horses or in a carriage a lady mayve worn a bonnet. 1869 1870 1880.

The skirt should have enough extra fullness to allow it to fall gracefully over the hoop. Often women would confine their hair in buns at the nape of their neck with a knitted snood. But most striking were the elaborate hairstyles of the 1860s many of which are still used today including woven patterns rolls and plaits.