Filed under: fairly trivial
Since the new Victorians are coming (read here and here), pushing proudly their baby carriages or perambulators (depending on the preferred variety of English), it seems practical to catch up with the style. If you can’t beat a trend and are loath to join it, why not twist it a bit? When you’re too poor to own a house with a garden just outside London, where you’re three kids could play before their piano class, you can at least have a nineteenth-century rat on your head.
That’s right: a rat. I’ve seen the hairdo in countless pictures, but had no idea how it was done. Knowing it, however, doesn’t exactly inspire me to collect my hair after combing into a big blonde hairball; guess I’m not Victorian enough (sigh). That’s the consequence of coming from a country that didn’t have a Victorian era of its own, just nasty uprisings and “organic work.” But the rats are oh so practical — you can save on ear flaps in winter. For practical advice go to this site (found via Bowleserised, which is a nice site too).
Victorian woman with rats and baby.
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