Ever since I discovered the Great Dickens Christmas Fair in San Francisco, attending (or working) the fair has been an annual Christmas tradition. Nothing sets me up for the Christmas spirit like wandering the streets of London in 1840s-1850s clothing, admiring handmade gifts, sampling meat pies, drinking hot buttered rum, singing carols, dancing at Fezziwig's
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Victorian hairstyles spanned the 1840s to 1890s. Each decade had a certain style for the wealthy classes involving hair parts, braids+, rolls, buns, and decorative accessories. Victorian hair after the 1850s was an elaborate arrangement of real and fake hair, requiring the assistance of a lady's maid or female family member. The following is a