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#1: Earphones Author: Kathy_S, Location: midwestern US PostPosted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 9:19 pm

Interesting description of what I assume are the same as Joey's earphones:
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Mitzi comes from Mondsee, the place where we spend summers. She still looked very countryish and wore a dirndl, and her hair in thick braids twisted like two big garden snails around her ears.

-The Devil in Vienna, Doris Orgel.

(edited to repair spelling)

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#2:  Author: Ellie, Location: Lincolnshire PostPosted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 11:51 pm

Garder snails Shocked Yuk!

 

#3:  Author: Laura, Location: London (ish) PostPosted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 11:56 am

It couldn't have helped her hearing very much either! Shocked

 

#4:  Author: Lulie, Location: Middlesbrough PostPosted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 1:31 pm

I'm sure I read somewhere that Laura Ingalls Wilder's mother wore her hair in earphones and her children have vivid memories of never seeing her ears! She probably couldn't hear very well either - not good if the kidlets are up to no good Wink

 

#5:  Author: Josie, Location: London PostPosted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 2:35 pm

Just spotted this in 'Adrienne...'

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A tall lady, dressed in 10th century attire with long black plaits dangling nearly to her knees and framing a clever sensitive face lit by a pair of beautiful black eyes came forward to greet the party. Ailie flung herself on her with a rapturous, “Aunt Joey!”


The earphones must have looked like a couple of tyres strapped to the side of her head!!

 

#6:  Author: Laura, Location: London (ish) PostPosted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 2:46 pm

Imagine plaits that long!! Imagine the brushing!! Woah. And wouldnt they get in the way a lot? I mean... merrily darning your husbands socks (or knitting a lime-green twinset) and you realise that your hair got in the way and is now incorperated into the garment??! Also surely they would dangle in your meals? (unless you had them in tyres, of course!)

 

#7:  Author: Kathy_S, Location: midwestern US PostPosted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 3:15 pm

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I'm sure I read somewhere that Laura Ingalls Wilder's mother wore her hair in earphones and her children have vivid memories of never seeing her ears!

The passage about ears comes in Little Town on the Prairie, just after Ma comments that a "lunatic fringe" [bangs] is unbecoming because it makes a girl's ears look larger. Ma laughs softly to herself.
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" I was only thinking of the time your Aunt Eliza and I combed our hair up off our ears and went to school that way. The teacher called us up front and shamed us before the whole school, for being so unladylike and bold as to let our ears be seen." Ma laughed softly again.
"Is that the reason you always wear those soft wings of hair down over your ears?" Laura cried.
Ma looked a little surprised. "Yes, I suppose it is," she answered, still smiling.
On the way to school Laura said, "Carrie, do you know I've never once seen Ma's ears?"
"They're probably pretty ears, too," said Carrie. "You look like her, and your ears are little and pretty."

 

#8:  Author: LadyGuinevere, Location: Leicester PostPosted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 5:08 pm

You know, it took me forever to work out what bangs were Smile

If her hair when plaited reached nearly to her knees, think how long the hair must have been! Is that even possible????

My own hair has never even managed to get to my waist!

~LadyG

 

#9:  Author: Ellie, Location: Lincolnshire PostPosted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 5:14 pm

Think of the weight of it! It's a wonder she didn't have a permanent headache, to say nothing about her neck and shoulders!

Incidentally, does anyone know if EBD had long hair?

 

#10:  Author: Kate, Location: Ireland PostPosted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 5:49 pm

One of my friends has hair that reaches her knees. But it gets less thick the longer it is (and I don't think it's very thick to begin with), so I don't think the weight is a problem. It's in very bad condition though. (don't tell her I said that!!)

 

#11:  Author: claire, Location: South Wales PostPosted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 6:41 pm

If you have loose plaits it doesn't shorten it by a huge amount, and most people with really long hair don't plait the last third of it as it is too thin and straggly

 

#12:  Author: Alex, Location: Manchester PostPosted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 8:09 pm

I tried to make earphones once with my hair when it was down to my waist, just to see how it would look and they weren't that big (and also were very hard to do) so I don't know that they would be tyre like at knee length, especially if the ends were really split.

Does that make sense?

 

#13:  Author: patmac, Location: Yorkshire England PostPosted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 8:21 pm

It makes perfect sense, Alex.

*wonders if the lack of washing just held the loose hair in place and then made the hair look longer?*

I have the impression that the plaits were not unplaited very often and so just sort of stayed there?

 

#14:  Author: ellend, Location: Bow, London PostPosted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 10:07 pm

A work colleague once told me her mother could stand <yes, stand> on the end of her hair. She was just over 5ft tall. It was usually kept tide. My friend, until she separated from her husband, had never had her hair cut and it was very long. She was of indian (sub-continent) origin and I understand that many woman of indian descendant have the gene that allows them to grow very long hair. Also it must be heavy, as it always looks to thick and glossy.

In a message elsewhere I post the difficulties a different colleague had had with her waist length hair, especially washing. I'm not sure how practical anything longer would be, as you'd always have to have plaited and looped to keep it out of everything.

Ellen

 

#15:  Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 11:35 am

Laura Ingalls Wilder also had very long hair, down to her knees. the quotation doesn't mean the Laura's mother wore her hair in earphones, but that she drew it down over her ears before putting it up into a bun at the back.

 

#16:  Author: Kathy_S, Location: midwestern US PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 2:22 pm

I agree about Laura's mother, Jennie.
For a photo of Charles & Caroline, see http://vvv.com/home/jenslegg/family.htm.

 

#17:  Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 5:36 pm

Didn't someone once work out how much hair Princes Leia must have had for her earphones? I've a feeling it was very very long!

Joey just seems to go from one extreme to another - as a girl she always had short hair, then once she decided to grow it, I'm not sure she ever got it cut again!

Liz

 

#18:  Author: Jennie, Location: Cambridgeshire PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 6:42 pm

To wear her hair in earphones, Jo's plaits must have started just above her ears. Eeeuuww!

 

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