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On the hair front, it was pretty simple if you were a boy and you were poor.
You had a choice between having your head shaved from front to back or having your head shaved from back to front. If you were a total rebel you could get it shaved from side to side. But the crucial word here is ‘shaved’.
If you weren’t short of a gold bar or six, you’d let your hair grow long, possibly with a middle parting, which would be much like your dad’s hairstyle.
Girls also usually had their hair parted down the middle, with two braids on each side. Poorer girls sometimes had plaits pulled up from the base of the neck and tied together on top of their head.
A lot of the time women’s hair was hidden under a hat, of course. Sometimes they wore rEaLlY tall pointy hats, while poorer women often wore wimples, which were large pieces of cloth that covered the head and were wrapped tight under the chin and neck.
One mega-weird bit of headgear was called an escoffion. It was made from material shaped into a huge double-horned creation, with each horn sometimes being nearly a metre long! Perfect for flocks of tired pigeons to rest on.
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Err, mum, I think you might have tied my hair a little too tight.