Gotham Patterns
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What's New
10-01-2007
- A New Section which provides evidence of professional hair-dressers for women, men, and children.
- A New Section which includes definitions for measurements and ingredients which may be confusing to the modern reader
- Many new pomatum recipes, including Elder Flower Pomatum,A Capitol Pomade,Jessamine Pomatum, and many more.
- Some new oil recipes, including Elder Flower Oil for the Hair, and several others
- An advertisement listing many types of haircombs
- More Recipes & Instructions for hair and scalp health, including several new pomatums to prevent baldness and a description of how to "Remove Superfluous Hair"
- New Articles (and a joke!) including Ladies' Hair from 1853, "Why is a lady's Hair like the latest news?", Newspapers, and several more.
- and last....A Humorous piece of writing on men's barbers
07-21-2007
- Braiding Patterns About 43 patterns taken from the pages of Godey's, 1859-1861, with a few from earlier issues scattered around.
05-08-2007
- Image: c. 18?? - Tintype. I picked this little lady up from a Brooklyn sidewalk sale. She's in bad condition, but what a hat! If anyone can help me date it more specifically than "1865-75", let me know.
04-25-2007
04-06-2007
03-06-2007
This site will be bare bones until I learn HTML a little better. All of the content from the old site is here, along with some new articles and images in the hair section. So until I get chance to fancy this up, enjoy the simplicity! -Alaina
This site is maintained by Alaina Zulli. Last updated 10/01/2007
