Thank you Cathy for your help. It's the investigations that makes it interesting. Kind regards Ron & Pat. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cathy Pinner" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 9:09 AM Subject: Re: [SP] HAIR STYLES. > --=======376C4891======= > Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-207B22A9; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Hi, > > I can't do it from photographs but I understand that putting your hair up= > =20 > was a sign of being grown up. It wasn't done until you left school thoug= > h=20 > most of the population left school much earlier if they went at all. Girl= > s,=20 > particularly in upper classes, didn't drift into adult society but "came=20 > out". I understand that the age of the debutante was about 18 although=20 > earlier in the century it could be a year or two younger. > > Cheers, > Cathy > > At 23:43 25/11/02 +0000, you wrote: > > >Hello List. > >A lot of the people on this list are working with old photographs. > >In Victorian times girls at a certain age changed their hair style from=20 > >plaits to "Up". > > >From the evidence in old photographs could anyone tell us what that ag= > e was. > >Many thanks and kind regards. > >Ron & Pat Reed. N/Yrks. UK. > > --=======376C4891=======-- > >