Victorian Haircuts and Beards for Men

Hair and beard styles from 1890 to 1910.

Description of Illustration: a black and white illustrations from a barber's manual written in the 1950's about the history of hair and beard styles, both the beard and moustache of the Victorian era 1850 through approx. 1910 in America were considered "a show" of masculinity among Victorian men

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      Masculinity, disease protection and more - what did he beard mean during the Victorian era? What was the style? How and why did the style evolve and eventually die out?
      Professor Richard J Evans, Gresham Professor of Rhetoric, provides a brief summary of the changing role of facial hair in Victorian Britain.
      This is an excerpt from Professor Evans' Gresham lecture 'The Victorians: Gender and Sexuality', which can be accessed here: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and...
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These hairstyles and beards were popular during the Civil War in America, around 1845 -1865.