Your Wardrobe Unlock'd

In Part 2, Lynn shows how to make several more hairstyles, add the finishing touches, and make the wigs removable.

Lynn shows how to display your hats like a museum would, by making paper wigs for headforms.

Step-by-step instructions, with photos, for recreating five late Victorian evening hairstyles. All are suitable for the Natural Form era and DPP.

Lynn continues her series on Natural Form Era Victorian hairpieces by showing step-by-step how to create a curly hairpiece, pin curls and curly bangs.

How to make several must-have Victorian hairpieces from an inexpensive but lifelike synthetic hair. Let's start by making a switch.

Nowadays, in the era of rubber bands and ionic hairdryers, a woman's hair is frequently a momentary affair: wash, dry, stick it in a ponytail and go. The entire process can last no more than a half-an-hour, and for short-haired women it is even less.

For the Victorian woman, however, hair was not just an inconvenience or an afterthought: it was practically a religion...

I've always dreamed of having one of those towering 18th century wigs so when I saw that Burnley and Trowbridge in Williamsburg, Virginia was hosting an 18th Century Wigs and Make-Up workshop I jumped at the chance to go. Betty Myers, Wigmaker of Williamsburg, gave a great overview of 18th Century wigs and showed me that I too could make a beautiful 18th century wig - and if I can do it, so can you!