Hair raising moments in History.

Despite amateur lady hairworkers of the early 19th century, professional women (predominantly under the employment of men) began to populate the hairworking industry, some even controlled their own concerns. This reached the point where jewellers who bought the worked hair and set it were becoming overridden by the hairworkers who not only worked the hair, but mounted it as well.

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a single curl cost a shilling, but with seed pearls and gold embellishments, the cost could go as high as five shillings or more!

- a Memorial memory from The art of mourning website

Now i am off to cut off someone elses hair- for profit of course!!!