I just reblogged this post from @history-of-fashion which included this lovely painting of Ursula vo

I just reblogged this post from @history-of-fashion which included this lovely painting of Ursula von Weichs, mistress to a Duke of Bavaria, and I was really intrigued by a few things. First of all, the fact that a mistress would receive such an elaborate portrait in the style of a pair of marriage paintings. Secondly; her short pageboy haircut. I did a quick bit of research and found an article about the paintings of the couple (which in itself revealed some interesting details about a bizarre inheritance clause that prevented the Duke from marrying anyone at all! Hence, the life-long mistresshood of Ursula). The article I read posed the notion that around the 1530s “elite women” (it didn’t clarify the region, although in this case Bavaria, presumably) adopted a pageboy haircut as a fashionable trend. I hadn’t heard of this before, and I was really curious if anyone else knew of this 16th century ladies bob-cut trend being a thing? I thought it was super cool to hear about it! (It also makes me look a bit more fairly upon Joan Bulmer’s haircut in season 4 of The Tudors). Whether it was all the rage at the time or Ursula was one of the few to do it, I do think Mistress von Weichs is rocking a pretty iconic look, which I have full respect for all these centuries later.  -- source link

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