Mwalimu-G
Elder Lister
Ridiculous Hair – 18th Century Skyscrapers
In the 18th Century hair got taller... and taller... and taller...
“Fashionable” hairstyles for women began their vertical climb in the late 1760s, and with them rose the ire of social critics, writes Paul K. Editorials appearing in London periodicals immediately decried the large headdresses that English ladies were all too eager to copy from their French counterparts.
Chronicling the rise and fall of the fashion takes us from the courts of France to the printshops of London and finally to the streets of Philadelphia in 1778, where all that the high roll represented in a new nation at war with an old empire was brought quite literally to a head.”
Big Hair
In the 18th Century hair got taller... and taller... and taller...
“Fashionable” hairstyles for women began their vertical climb in the late 1760s, and with them rose the ire of social critics, writes Paul K. Editorials appearing in London periodicals immediately decried the large headdresses that English ladies were all too eager to copy from their French counterparts.
Chronicling the rise and fall of the fashion takes us from the courts of France to the printshops of London and finally to the streets of Philadelphia in 1778, where all that the high roll represented in a new nation at war with an old empire was brought quite literally to a head.”
Big Hair