--=======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=======--