#if you want to avoid accidentally making Mina and Lucy look pre-pubescent: there you go

[marzipanandminutiae]

I deeply appreciate all the fanart for Dracula Daily. there’s so much incredible talent on display and it brightens my dash

if anyone is interested, I would like to very quietly and respectfully submit that Victorian girls/women older than about 16 wore their hair up whenever they were Dressed For The Day and/or out in public

yes, even if they were unmarried

yes, all the way up, in a bun or similar. there are tons of awesome fashion plates available for the late 1890s online, if you simply google “fashion plate 1897;” they’re great reference images

that’s not to say fanart HAS to be accurate. but. you know. if you want it to be, there’s my advice