Fig. 6 is mounted on a shape made of wire, tulle, and ribbon, and is rather elongated in form  It requires an ounce and a half of smooth hair and an ounce of crisped.  The execution consists in rolling the branches on themselves and interlacing them.

Figures 6, 7 and 8

Fig. 7 takes only an ounce and a half of hair half a yard long, which must be formed into a large roll, and a bow that can be easily completed with the lady’s own hair, so as to imitate nature to perfection.  The shape on which this chignon is mounted is triangular.

Fig. 8.  This chignon is mounted on a square shape.  Make two torsades, one above the other, with hair twenty-four inches long, slightly crisped, and finish with a bow with two loops.

Figure 9

Fig. 9 is mounted on a round shape of ribbon wire; it requires two ounces of hair about three-quarters of a yard in length, in tresses. The coiffure consists of five interlaced loops, and a torsade going round them.

Fig. 10. Front and Back. Part the hair from one ear to the other about four inches from the forehead. Divide it into five portions on each side by one horizontal and two vertical partings. With the front lock, touching the forhead, make a Mary Stuart bandeau, and a rolled bandeau over it. Form three bandeaux rolled under, the last of them meeting the loops of the chignon. These loops are rolled on the fingers from the end to the roots. Make a large bow resting on the nape, but not covering it; also a few irregular loops on the top of the head, and then place the ornaments as seen in the engraving.

Figure 10 – Front and Back

Fig. 11. This illustration represents an ingenious method of lengthening the braids of one’s own hair by fastening tresses to the end of crêpés to the end, when the added hair is plaited in turn, thus forming a continuous braid, which exhibits no break to the eye.

Figures 11 and 12

Fig. 12.  These curls are designed to be worn behind the ears, and are confined with ribbons, as seen in the engraving, and which are concealed by short curls fastened on in like manner, or by the lady’s own hair, suitably arranged.

Anonymous (1867, December 21). Coiffures and chignons. Harper’s Bazar, Vol. I(8), 116. Retrieved from http://victoriantimes.us/fashion/coiffures-and-chignons

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