the trend of their mothers and began to wear stays or tight corsets. "Barley" or "sugar" curls became a popular hairstyle for both girls and boys: they were long, droopy curls that framed the face. Photographs See also 1830s in Western fashion 1850s in Western fashion Corset controversy Victorian fashion References Ashelford, Jane: The Art of Dress: Clothing and Society 1500–1914, Abrams, 1996. Goldthorpe, Caroline: From Queen to Empress: Victorian Dress 1837–1877, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, (full text available online from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Digital Collections) Tozer, Jane and Sarah Levitt, ''Fabric of Society: A Century of People and their Clothes 1770–1870, Laura Ashley Press, External links 1840s Fashion Plates of men, women, and children's fashion from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries The Romantic Era: Fashions 1825–1845 1840s Men's Fashions — c. 1840 Men's Fashion Photos (Daguerreotypes) with Annotations Men's fashion plates of the 1840s at Victoriana.com 1840s Fashions in the Staten Island Historical Society Online Collections Database 1840s fashion History of clothing (Western fashion)