MEN'S VICTORIAN HAIRSTYLES - RESEARCH

Hair styles for men in the Victorian era changed successfully during different moments of this period. Men, since 1840 until approximately 1865 wore their hair more or less long, and it became in fashion to havee big moustaches, sideburns and beards. Also was 'a la mode', the puritan hairstyle of the 19th century, with no moustaches and side-burns attached to a short beard like Abraham Lincoln. 

After 1860, and until the end of the century, hair was shorter but beards and moustaches were constantly used. Gentlemen used different kinds of waxes and oils to keep their hair in shape, including wood frames used at night time to preserve the form of their moustaches. At the end of the century many decided to use a clean shaven face and short hair. 

A centre parting was popular in the 1870s, running from forehead to nape, but there were considerable individual choice in the way hair was combed - parted slightly off centre, at the side or brushed straight back.

Men also developed a variety of side-whiskers - broad and bushy 'mutton-chop' whiskers. Or long and combed out, known as Piccadilly weepers or Dundrearys during the 70s. Side whiskers may be worn with or without a moustache, as might the fringe beard running round under the chin in the late 1850s and early 1860s. Full beards covering the chin, combined with a moustache, where cut in different ways - full and bushy, rounded and neat, or slightly more pointed. A narrow pointed beard from just under the lower lip to an inch or so below the chin, known as a goatee, was worn by Napoleon III, with a long moustache waxed out straight at the sides. Some wore a waxed moustache which was slightly turned up at the ends which may be referred to as the 'Kaiser moustache'. By the late 1880/90s, the clean shaven face was coming back into fashion, as the illustrations by Charles Dana Gibson show the dashing escorts of his Gibson girls as clean-shaven. But many older men continued to wear a beard or moustache well into the new century.






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