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[poliphilo]

I know I said I'd grow my hair but I can never get through the bit in the middle- where the hair isn't long enough to constitute a statement but long enough to tickle the ears and be itchy. I'd love to be a cavalier but it looks like I'm destined to live out the rest of this life as a roundhead.

Perhaps I should invest in a wig. Then I could be Prince Rupert in the morning and Praise-God Barebones in the afternoon- or the other way round if I so chose. No, I'm not serious. Wigs are silly.

I was looking at portraits of late seventeenth century admirals in the Queens House at Greenwich, all of them with their fat little faces engulphed in enormous shoulder-length horsehair wigs and I was thinking "How did they stand it?"

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I suppose.

I do wonder whether they bothered to wear them around the house- or just got them out for special occasions.

[idahoswede.livejournal.com]

They actually had caps that looked rather like turbans to wear at home, but generally a person did not leave his bedroom without being properly turned out. Also don't forget night caps!

https://goo.gl/images/JnlqKN

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Those are great. I want one.