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=__Women's Hair in the 14th Century__=

This is a picture displaying how the hair would form a heart shape around the head.

This picture is displaying a snood. The hair is braided and wrapped in the snood. Some times women used other materials to substitute for the snood.


 * For the wealthy cost wasn’t an issue. But, the poor struggled in order to stay with the latest fashions.
 * It was highly fashion able to die your hair blond. When Dyeing their hair, women, would wear hats that that had a brim but no crown. Women would spend days sitting in the sun to get a hint of gold.
 * Some women wore fake hair which was made from either peasants' hair or silk threads.
 * For the people of this time period their hair was the most prized possession.
 * The royalty and the wealthy always had the pressure of having their hair look as elaborate as the clothes they were wearing.
 * They curled and frizzed their hair. They wore it high and not near their face.
 * A popular style was the heart shape. This framed the hair ina heart shape around the head.
 * They wore tons of accessories in their hair. One was a snood which was sack like and covered the hair. Some women braided their hair and wrapped it is a circle and coved it with the snood.