Considering it is Christmas this hair seemed perfect to go with the Christmas carol, The Twelve Days of Christmas. How is that you ask? Well, the song has many birds in it and this hair has a bird in it. Perfect. The Duchess style is a pre-revolutionary French style worn by the aristocracy. With hair piled high on the head formed around a bird cage which is embedded into the style above the crown. Curls, the kind my grandmother called banana curls, are optional to frame the face and fall down the back of the neck. The entire style is accented with white bows and topped with long feathers. The bird in the cage is scripted with several choices including a songbird option.
The Duchess style costs $300L for all 3 colors. The colors included are: auburn, black, and sand.
Pose: AnimaH - Rich Girl, Skin: Sin Skin - Clara Bow Red Whisp, Clothes: Vintage Clothing Reproductions - Starry Flower - Deep Ruby, Eyes: Gurl 6 - Silver by PopFuzz, Lashes: Cake - Bedroom Lashes
Addendum: I do not normally do this but a question was raised about this style and I wish to point a few things out. No one person owns the idea of having a birdcage in a hairstyle this was common in 18th century for "imaginative ladies to create mini-bird cages complete with birds on top of their heads." To say that one style copied another because they both contain birdcages is like saying that one ponytail style is a copy of another.
(Quote from Hairstyles Through the Age)
9 comments:
This hair is a copy of the drcoynic kiss style........
Marni
The idea of having a birdcage in a hairstyle is not an original idea has shown on the "Hairstyles Through the Ages" website. No one person owns this idea.
http://www.crystalinks.com/hair2.html
"The 18th century saw the emergence of elaborate wigs, mile-high coiffures and highly decorated curls. White powdered wigs with long ringlets were the order of the day often tied back with a black bow for men or decorated with feathers, bows and garlands for women. Big hair was definitely stylish and many hairdos were modeled over a cage frame or horsehair pads, the bigger the better. Some immensely tall coiffures took hours to create and were heavily starched and powdered. However, the length of time spent creating these elaborate styles did mean that weeks went by between styling and the mixture of horsehair and heavy powder created perfect nesting material for vermin. This didn't seem to put them off though, and some adventurous souls had mini gardens or maritime scenes complete with model ship incorporated into their style in fact it was not unknown for imaginative ladies to create mini-bird cages complete with birds on top of their heads."
Actually, both styles are interpretations of 18th century aristrocratic wigs. Women of the 18th century wore extremely elaborate wigs. This site has this to say about them:
This didn’t seem to put them off though, and some adventurous souls had mini gardens or maritime scenes complete with model ship incorporated into their style – in fact it was not unknown for imaginative ladies to create mini-bird cages complete with birds on top of their heads!
Another site states, "Louis XVI's wife, Marie Antoinette, wears great plumes in her hair. Soon, women's hairdos become breeding grounds for accessories, such as butterflies, windmills, vegetables, birds and cardboard cutouts."
Finally, this site on costuming states that the pompadour is "the large hair-do associated with the French court and often had birds or toys placed in it."
I appreciate the heads up, but I'm pretty sure this is just a case of two separate designers being influenced by fashion history. (I love it, and minored in theatre in college. That's why I remembered this! :D)
Thank you Teagan, you look fabulous in the Duchess! Just two things here. I did not copy anyone, other then the movie I remembered watching long about, with Bob Hope and Lucille Ball. I had planned for along time to make the birdcage hair. So with that said. I hope you all enjoy the style, as I have made a few baroque styles now. Secondly, It is not 300 per color, but 100 per color, but this set happens to have 3 colors in it. And is limited edition.
Leetah - we figured as much. It's a wonderful execution of a fantastic trend from the 1700s. :D
"on the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to meeeee..... a partridge in a HAIR tree"
(ok, I couldn't resist. Finally back from the week sepnt with family members in rotations - I'm a lil insane)
Oh, Sirahal, that's just fowl! ;)
*cracks up* if I knew you in RL, I could soooo take that farther!
(fowl is dang close to my last name...and anything birdish tends to be a running inside joke among the family ;P)
*giggles* That's too funny!
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