A mood of restraint and urbanity began to prevail; men started paying more attention to grooming; and greater variety in facial hair fashions were the result. Old men might have hung onto their whiskers, but younger, sprucer, sporting chaps tended to go for a stylish, outdoors-minded mo. The Demon is one such result. It goes well with a blazer and a boater hat.
This exhibition illustrates changes in beards, moustaches and sideburns from the 1780s to the 1980s.
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