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Monadnock Moment No. 183Era 6: Development of the Industrial United States -
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| Of all the positively ugly modes now current, the mode of wearing the hair (in bangs), or combed down over the brow and cut square is perhaps the ugliest. Bangs entirely destroy the effect of a fine forehead and lend to the whole face a degree of ...vulgarity, which hardly any (woman) would incur if she could realize its full force. It is indeed surprising how many women, very nice women, wear bangs in Keene and other cities. They do not think about it at all, but do it only because it is fashionable. It seems that even 110 years ago our ancestors were "slaves of fashion." |
The Sentinel reporter ended his 1879 article with his opinion of men who wore bangs. He concluded as follows:
| The crowning stupidity, however, is when men wear bangs. They so deform themselves that they should never expect to be counted entirely sane. The thing may be pardonable in a woman, but in a man it is absolutely inexcusable, for no man of average intelligence labors under the delusion, as many a woman does, that he is obliged to disfigure himself in an attempt to look beautiful. |
