The first image is of a young Elizabeth, in this picture she is wearing what is known as an french hood, a type of headscarf, popular fashion for women during Elizabethan times.
This Second image is of Elizabeth later on during her reign as the Queen of England. in This picture Elizabeth appears to be wearing an elaborately styled wig. this wig contains two raised areas of curled hair one on each side of the head. The style of wearing hair in this particular shape was extremely popular during the Elizabethan era. Wigs were hugely popular in during the Elizabethan era, partly because women desired to have golden hair and would use products to lighten the hair which unfortunatley damaged their natural hair, causing thinning and hairloss. Not only this, but Elizabeth suffered from a bout of Smallpox during her late 20's which caused her to lose a substantial amount of hair (Alopecia) so she favoured wigs to wide her baldness.
In this shows and Elizabethan woman who is wearing what is known as a "pill box hat" a popular style of hat during Queen Elizabeths reign.
other hairstyles which we found were very common in Elizabthan times included:
- Attifets: a type of head dress similar to a french hood with an M shape at the front where the headdres meets the hairline.
- Coif: a type of bonnet
- Thread to hold hair in place: Elizabethan women would often platt their hair elboratley and then attach it to the hair on the head by sewing it with thread to create interesting styles.
- Centre partings
- High foreheads: which were thought to represent intellignce and nobility
- Pearls were often used to decorate hair hairstyles and represented wealth and purity.
- Plats were extremely trendy during the Elizabethan era, wether worn as long hanging fishtail plats or french platted and sewn up to create an intricate hair up style.
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-hair-styles.htm
http://chertseymuseum.org/hair
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