Specialist Practice

Ancient egyptians removed body hair for cleanliness, but they wore wigs to protect from the sun

Originally a white dominated race in 

wig made from pure human hair which has been knotted into a cap

hair curled using bees wax and the rest black afro hair, the stylwe of the wig reflects change of cultures

 

Cleopatra came on to the throne

 

 

Reubens 1609- 1610

Samson and Delilah if his ahir is cut he loses his bond with god, which creates the importance of not cutting hair

 

English Civil war 1642- 1651 

Execution of king charles I

round heads against and Caveleir

King charles, long hair (royalist) 

Hair became bigger and flamboyant fro social status.

 

1903 Emily Panchurst

Sufrogets 

1928 campaign, gave women the vote womeans hair changed as they took on male roles

 

1920s women never had short hair until it became popular after it was shocking to society (Louise Brooks)

 

 

The Flaper came about 

 

Lord Kitchener 1914 a time where all soldiers had moustaches 

moustache was the height of masculinity

 

in 21st century, beards are worm to blend i with the afghans. british army allow stubble, danish don. Afghans see red hair as bravery 

 

 

Groucho Marx grese paint moustache and eyebrows was his trademark  - duck soup, a famous film

 

hitlers moustache was cut to fit underneath a gas mask. 

 

industrial revolution, americans started teddy boy phase, whoch english copied

- hair- brill cream

 

major time for revolution,african civil rights movement, the march in washington, the moon. men grew hair to oppose short military hair cuts.

festivvals of love 

american tribal love rock musical, 1968 boradway -'HAIR'

MArsha Hunt 1968, posed nude - muse of brown sugar, rolling stones song

 

For men, long hair of 60's followed in to 70's

supermodel pat evans, rebelled and hav=d a shaven head and shot photos of equality

late 70's punk malcom mclaren and viv westwood got together. rebelled against what was seen as the norm, the new romantics were the opposite. Boy George

 

indian policemen are paid to grow a moustache fro authority.

 

1907 - freida kahlo, painter - unibrow, not beautiful, eccentric characteristics, 

 

Quajar paintings - unibrow on female indian and islamic art

 

vogue, man dressed as a woman on cover

 

HAIR Extensions

length and volume for african hair 

natural, untreated blonde hair was more expensive than gold

 

Feminine body hair - decieved by how we should look because of 

1532, recipe book how to get rid of hair