THE
1800S
Erika
Navarro
What I didn’t like…..
TIMELINE
1800
– The capital of the U.S. changed from
Philadelphia to Washington D.C.
1800 – The library of congress was founded.
1810 – First census: 8 million people
1812 – Louisiana became the 18th state.
1827 –
Slavery became illegal in New York.
1835 – Texas declared it’s independence from Mexico.
1848 – Gold was discovered in California
1860 - Abraham Lincoln was elected president.
Fashion of the 1800s was a lot more complicated
than it is now. For instance, women had to wear
corsets under many other layers of clothing.
Which would sometimes even break their ribs
and make them pass out. The wealthier people
wore more colors and layers. In a sense, you wore
your social class on your sleeve, literally.
Makeup wasn’t really that popular in
the early 1800s, women were going
more for a really pale look. In order
to achieve that, a lot of them would
stay out of the sun. The only women
that really wore heavy makeup
during this time were prostitutes and
actresses. By the late 1800s makeup
became popular again. A lot of
cosmetic salons were opened by
people like Helena Rubenstein,
Elizabeth Arden, and Max Factor.
Hairstyles from the 1800s were focused largely on soft up dos and romantic
curls. Women then didn’t have hot rollers or curling irons like we do now. They
used brushes, rag rollers, and pomades to create elegant styles. Even though we
have a lot more tools for our hair now, the end result is basically the same. If
you look at pictures of women from the 1800s and compare them to a lot of
red-carpet looks now, you would see a huge similarity.
Difficult
• Finding
time to
complete
this project.
• Finding a
model.
• Being
interested in
the time era.
Easy
• Finding
information.
•
Putting my
model’s look
together.
• Getting up this
morning.
“There are no
shortcuts to any place
worth going.”
-Beverly Sills
It’s only the beginning……