Traditional Hair Styles

[davedove]

In battle, hair was often short in front (so enemy couldn't grab it) but long in the back (if you turned and ran instead of fighting, you usually got butchered while fleeing).

It was also shorter in the front to keep it from interfering with one's field of vision. The extra hair in the back was also an additional layer of padding (every little bit helps). Thus, the perfect hairstyle would have been .... the mullet.

[Andrew Breecher]

The English-style tonsure was also the front of the head, rather than the Continental top of the head tonsure. Yet another thing (along with the date of Easter) that the English Church argued with Rome about. I'm not sure if the two hairstyles are related.

Andrew.

[Bugbear]

Hair Wars
Mine is just long in the front and back and I pull it all back into a ponytail. I've thought of getting a celtic hair tie thing, but that might be a bit much. Guess the Scots wern't quite doing that, oh well.

[sharpdressedscot]

Dreads? Ha, kiddin'!!

[Bugbear]

Jaa maan da dreads. Just weave yourself one of them bonnets with your hair. Who needs a sheep.

Dreads? Ha, kiddin'!!

[Joel]

This is early 1700s, but...it deals with hair - in a way

Being linked to the Campbell's, I was read an interesting account how John Campbell, 2d Duke of Argyll, led an infantry assault against the French (can't quite remember where)...but how he somehow escaped all injury...only suffering a hole shot in his coat, his hat being shot off...and...his wig shot off.

[Niblox]

I have had everything in the line of hair from shoulder length to shaved completely bald. The kilt, though, remained exactly the same!


With hair


Bald

[Bugbear]

Ya, I have read of men wearing wigs at different times in the past. You know the big wigs.

[sharpdressedscot]

How 'bout a rainbow colored clown wig?? Now, that's an attraction!

[Bugbear]

Bet you somebody's pulled off wearing a kilt and having a mohawk.

How 'bout a rainbow colored clown wig?? Now, that's an attraction!