![]() ![]() So far I’ve got pictures of 34 of these completed styles in my beard and moustache gallery and I hope to be adding more photos to this list very soon. Still, if you want to know about beards, he’s the expert. His chart of facial hair types shows pictures of many of the beard styles below although others have been added from different sources. After seeing his amazing Quest For Every Beard Type, I was inspired to try the very same task. (Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons / Pinterest / Flickr / Tribstar / ).Cliche has it that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and, if true, Jon Dyer is a man that should feel extremely flattered right now. Mustaches were still popular, and the handlebar mustache came into fashion at this time – full, waxed, and pointed at the ends.Īs the 1900s approached, and then on into the 20th century, facial hair in men gradually declined through the decades. As new designs in razors were developed, more men started to return to shaving and the number of clean-shaven men was on the rise. In the 1890s, men wore short and neatly trimmed hair parted in the middle, just off center, or on the side. A center part in the hair was introduced. Older men trimmed their beards and younger men wore impressive mustaches with or without smaller beards. ![]() In Britain, the full beard became synonymous with being an older, conservative gentleman, so it declined in acceptance with younger men. In the 1880s, some men still wore beards, but the mustache alone continued to increase in popularity over a full beard. Beards of all kinds continued to be in style.Īt the beginning of the decade, beards were more popular than mustaches, but mustaches worn alone were gradually becoming as popular as beards by the end of the decade. In the 1870s, men’s hair was shorter and still brushed back from the face. Beards, sideburns, mutton chops, mustaches, and chin whiskers became popular, and some tended to be wild-looking or untidy. Men’s hair in the 1860s was parted on the side and generally combed back from the face. In the 1880s, Rudyard Kipling wrote of a woman who complained that being kissed by a man who did not wax his mustache was like eating an egg without salt. Great gobs of wax were melted and then applied to the mustache to keep the curls intact.Įverything from mustache curlers to wax to snoods (that kept your mustache safe during the night) to modified mugs with a special pierced rim or little bars across known as “mustache lifters” were invented over the course of the nineteenth century to cultivate the requisite sartorial distinction associated with it. These mustaches were pampered: they were trimmed, brushed, combed, dyed, and even curled up at the ends. It was from this heroic period when men who had never been in the army, started to grow beards.ĭuring the Victorian times, famous individuals such as Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe became hugely experimental with facial hair, from twiddling long mustaches and growing out long beards. The man of the late 19th century, no matter his social status, was sure to don a perfectly stylish and manicured mustache as a part of any proper gentlemen’s attire.ĭuring the Crimean War in the 1850s was when men started to really show off a variety of different facial hair styles.īeards had been banned in the British Army until this time, however, the freezing temperatures and harsh winters meant that it was impossible to keep clean-shaven.īy the time the troops returned home, beards had marked the shape of a hero. Vintage Portraits Depict Mustache Styles and Haircuts of the Late 19th Century Men, 1880s-1900s ![]()
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