#I also know costumers with pink hair and sleeve tats and facial piercings so

[marzipanandminutiae]

Hi! This might be of an odd question, but is using one's own short hair something people do in historical costuming at all, in your experience? Everyone I see seems to have long hair to recreate hairstyles with and I'm more just interested in the clothes/don't like wigs. Is having/using short hair something people do? (When I say short I mean it's like a pixie cut, there's really nothing that could be done with my hair)

It's not necessarily commonplace- a lot of the short-haired feminine-presenting people I know either wear wigs or stick to eras where their length was more fashionable (1790s-1820s, 1920s, etc). But it's certainly not historically inaccurate.

Because, surprisingly enough...some women liked having short hair even when it wasn't popular. Simply searching "Victorian woman short hair" will supply you with tons of photos, and there are definitely portraits of similar ladies from earlier periods. And while some of those women were likely getting over an illness (women's hair was often cut in an attempt to bring down a fever), my research indicates that some kept their hair that way entirely by personal choice.

It may not be what laypeople expect, but it definitely Happened.

And if you aren't in it for the Full Look, only the clothes...tell people that. They can get onboard or piss off.

Happy costuming!