Summary
Tressed for success But of course, no such thick and curly madness could be so easily swept from the chequerboard floor of history 's barbershop; the linkage between short male hair and Christian virtue may have been snipped, but its tight weave with the contemporary religion of commerce remains impossible to unpick - truly, short hair remains the extension of growth by other means. [...] while one can have some sympathy for the latter- there is a certain rationality in elevating idleness to the level of grooming- the former is a woeful illustration of modern men's inability to make anything but a symbolic gesture towards true equality of the sexes.
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Here Come the Curls
Charles Mackay's Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841), to which this column owes its title, devotes a chapter to the subject of men's hair and beards. However, while Mackay locates the fashion fo...
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