artekka:artekka:She did her hair in a pompadour. Pompadours had long gone out of fashion, but they h
artekka:artekka:She did her hair in a pompadour. Pompadours had long gone out of fashion, but they had been in when Valancy first put her hair up and Aunt Wellington had decided that she must always wear her hair so.“It is the only way that becomes you. Your face is so small that you must add height to it by a pompadour effect,” said Aunt Wellington, who always enunciated commonplaces as if uttering profound and important truths.Valancy had hankered to do her hair pulled low on her forehead with puffs above the ears, as Olive was wearing hers. but Aunt Wellington’s dictum had such an effect on her that she never dared change her style of hairdressing again.–The Blue Castle, L. M. MontgomeryThe Blue Castle takes place in the early 1920s. As Valancy has just turned 29 at the beginning of the book, she would have started putting her hair up about 1910. So her hairstyle would have been quite out of date.Click on the images to see further information -- source link
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