Some account of the beard and the moustachio, chiefly from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century / [J. Adey Repton].

  • John Adey Repton
Date:
1839
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Credit: Some account of the beard and the moustachio, chiefly from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century / [J. Adey Repton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    If this were onlie in the women | it were lesse harme: hut it is also in men^ for there is not as (C C( (( (( muehe as he that hathe but 40 schillinges by the yere but is as long in the morning | to set his herd in in an order ] as a godlie erawftis men would be looming a peice of karsey.” The following are quotations from various works, shewing the habits, manners, and customs of Barbers of the 16th and I7th centuries. The first from Stubbes’s Anatomic of Abuses, 1583. They (the barbers) have invented such strange fashions of monstrous maners of cuttings, trim- mings, shavings, and washings, that you would wonder to see. They have one maner of cut called the French cut, another the Spanish cut, one the Dutch cut, another the Italian, one the new cut, another the old, one the Gentleman’s cut, another the common cut, one cut of the Court, another of the country, with infinite the like vanities, which I over- passe. They have also other kinds of cuts innumer- able, and, therefore, when you come to be trimed, they will ask you whether you will be cut to look ter¬ rible to your enemie, or amiable to your friend, grime ^ and Sterne in countenance, or pleesant and demure (for they have divers kind of cuts for all their pur¬ poses, or else they lie). Then, when they have done “ all their feats, it is a world to consider how their mowchatowes must be preserved or laid out, from one j:3heke to another, and turned up like two homes towards the forehead. Besides that, when they come to the cutting of thehaire, what snipping and snapping of the cycers is there, what tricking and (( cc cc (C (C (i iC cc cc cc cc cc