Using hair as a remembrance was popularized during the reign of Queen Victoria who fell into deep mourning after the death of her husband Prince Albert in 1861. To show her affection for her deceased husband she began to wear jewelry made from his hair and also began to give jewelry made of her own hair to her children. This was during a period before the popularization of photography. Close friends often traded hair as a token of their friendship. Hair was also taken after death as a form of remembrance. Hair wreaths were made as a form of affection for the dead and were often in a horseshoe shape, a Victorian symbol of good luck, with the ends up to “hold the luck.” If a woman’s local supply of hair was low, catalogs existed to order hair and hair could even sometimes be purchased at stores. In the early part of the 20th Century, as hair styles for women became shorter, the art of making hair wreaths lost popularity.