LAUREN STOWELL
I would like to thank Page Street Publishing for offering us the opportunity to write a second book. This was the perfect time and format to bring Abby Cox’s amazing experience and research with eighteenth-century hair to the world and deeply dive into this fascinating subject. I have to thank Abby for being patient with me while I played “catch up” with the research, and for then debating minutiae endlessly as we worked through this second book.
I would also like to thank all of our models for being so patient with us, Nicole Rudolph and Cynthia Settje for making the trek out to Reno and helping us sew as well as being our guinea pigs, and Marni, my hairdresser, for fixing the horror that was my hair after we cut it for the à l’enfant hair experiment. Additionally, thank you to my mother for editing the heck out of our essays. Lastly, thank you eternally to Chris for his patience and help in setting up the photo studio (again and again and again) and listening to me go on ad nauseum about archaic hair stuff.
ABBY COX
It truly takes a village to birth a book-baby, doesn’t it? This time is no different. However, before I begin my long list of thank yous, I want to give a special shout-out to every single person who bought our first book and has expressed excitement over this one. Without you, this book would not have happened. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.
My passion and obsession for eighteenth-century hair was first encouraged by my former colleagues at The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation: Janea Whitacre, Mark Hutter, Sarah Woodyard, Mike McCarty, Rebecca Starkins, Brooke Welborn, Neal Hurst and Angela Burnley. Thank you to all of my friends and former coworkers (too many to name) who were willing guinea pigs for me back then, and to Tim Logue for planting the seed for the idea of the knitting needle hair roller! I also would like thank Anne Bissonette Ph.D. for her earth shattering lecture on eighteenth-century hairstyles that inspired me so many years ago, and her encouragement with my research.
To Cheyney McKnight, thank you for sharing your knowledge and wisdom with us, and contributing to this book. You were invaluable to this project, and, frankly, I think you’re a goddess, in my humble opinion.
A huge thank you to Nicole Rudolph not only for your sewing and modeling in this book, but for also being my sounding board, test model and second pair of hands when I was first deep into this subject many years ago. I also have to thank Cynthia Settje, Jenny Zhang, Laurie Tavan, Jasmine Smith and Zyna Navarte for being the most patient and beautiful models.
I want to thank Lauren, for jumping down this research rabbit hole with me, head first, and always being the best co-author I could ask for. I’m sorry about your hair, but I did the best I could. Thanks for being a willing mullet victim, and thank you for translated Legros and Léonard because I really don’t care about anything pre-1765 when it comes to hair.
Thanks to Chris for the photo studio and photography assistance, to Dana Reeser for looking over our scribbles, to Amanda for the behind-the-scenes footage and to Nastassia Parker-Gross and Jenny-Rose White for your advice and input.
I feel so blessed to have such a supportive partner and family to support me in this second go around. Thank you, Jimmy, for your love and support, to my father, Mark, and his wife, Leigh, for being the best cheerleaders, and finally, to my amazing mother, Susan, I have no words to express how important you were to this process, and not just because you sent amazing care packages.
Finally, a huge thank you to our editor, Lauren Knowles, and the incredible team at Page Street Publishing for their encouragement and support with our slightly wacky idea for our second publication. Thank you for helping make my dreams come true.