vicfangirlguide:

Victorian beauty manuals recommended that a woman brush her hair for 10 minutes at minimum and up to 4 times a day. Dressing tables included a container known as a ‘hair tidy’ which would be used to collect the considerable amount of hair from the brush. When enough hair had…

my grandma collects a lot of vintage everything (clothes,shoes,hair ornaments, jewelry, etc..) and she actually has like 4 “rats” in an old hat box and I stumbled upon them one time and I was like…oh