Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Secondo me,sono capelli naturali ben curati. Anche allora usavano espedienti per avere bei capelli lucidi e abboccolati magari con l'uso del ferro o altro mezzo.

They look shaped to me. It's the largeness at the bottom of the curl.

Definitely shaped. Very smooth, natural is more rough looking, I have so I know. Either is so beautiful

Interesting, now I'm going to have to Google how they would use the tongs...I can't even imagine how hard that would be

Is this the poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox?

Rag ,My mom did our hair with clean old socks

Probably, she has naturally curly hair since there are waves very close to the scalp. You wouldn't put heated tongs that close to the skin. I pity her if she had to sleep with rag strips tied that tightly and close to the scalp! T

Those large curls were no doubt created by using rags or tongs to get the big, fat curls.

They were called sausage curls or bologna curls and were popular for women through a lot of the 1800s. Later, in the 1920's and 1930's, you mostly saw those curls on little girls (think Shirley Temple)...curled more tightly than this lady's, but the same style.

Curlers and a hair piece. Not uncommon in the 1870s and 1880s to have a wiglet put on the top or back of your natural hair to enhance the effect.

Curlers

My guess is a combination of natural and helped....pretty curls

Rag ringlets, but the hair would have to have a natural curl for to hold like that straight hair they would fall out

Beautiful Rag Curls!

Rags. I used to set mine that way.

My grandmother curled my mother’s hair with bamboo sticks. How, I haven’t a clue. But she did have beautiful candy curls as a child.

Rag curls!

Rag Curls...

Love these old pictures.

My grandmother used to use rags on my pin straight hair. I always had ringlets