Our first project this year is called the New Elizabethans. It is centred around Elizabethan hairstyles, and in our final assessment we will have to create a contemporary version of an Elizabethan style. To achieve our final design we must research traditional Elizabethan styles and use our research to help us create a final design, being aware of the techniques and shapes that Elizabethans themselves would have worn. I should also think when creating my style, which type of women would wear it (e.g queen or working woman).
It was fashionable at this time for hair to be very pale, often strawberry blonde. Lots of accessories were used to decorate the hair such as cauls, a hair net which were decorated with pearls, coifs embellished with jewels and lace and the attifet which was a heart shaped cap. Hair often had a frizzy, crimped sort of look about it, and lots of plaits and buns were used alongside the hair accessories to create elaborate up do's.
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