In our lesson with Helen today we learnt about later Victorian hairstyles (from about 1840s onwards). The style was ever changing but the main focus of a traditional Victorian lady was that her hair was kept neat! In the 1840s women started wearing their hair in 'barley curls' - these were long ringlets that mostly children wore before it became fashionable for women to wear! At this point too, chignons start moving to the back of the head.
As hoop skirts became popular in the 1850s, hairstyles got bigger to match them! Hair was still parted to the middle, however many women started using padding in their hair to make it bigger. In general, hair from the 1840s onwards became longer and the curls were a lot looser than they had been before. Sometimes too, the partings became triangular - hair shapes changed a lot. Victorian women kept their hairstyles so that they still framed the face, and so that they were also still suitable to wear with a bonnet, which remained fashionable.
Bibliography:
http://www.fashion-era.com/images/HairHats/original_hathair_images/6hats1893-97.jpg
http://www.onlinecostumeball.com/GermanBook/Hats/hats11.jpg
http://www.whizzpast.com/victorian-hairstyles-a-short-history-in-photos/
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