for that historically accurate touch
Right.
Hetalia characters in wigs.
That's all this post is.
Mix work with pleasure, I always say.
I'd just been to the National Portrait Gallery on another of those illustration dept. field trips and there is nothing quite like the exquisite sameness engendered by a room hung with portrait upon portrait of Whigs in wigs. I recommend the portrait of Handel that's in the next room over to anyone who decides to venture in, it really shows off how terrible dark, thick, Arthurian eyebrows look when you're wearing a white-powdered wig.
By the way, the longer/fuller your wig was, the smarter you were supposed to be. Doctors and lawyers kept on wearing the full-bottomed wig long after other men had moved to to shorter, less cumbersome styles, and the full-bottomed wigs that judges still wear today in court are a legacy of this.
And yes kids wore wigs too (only on the Continent, sneers Arthur).
The infamous "sailing ship" pompadours for women (apparently the coiffures reached 2'6" in height) were an exclusively French fashion, so I didn't inflict them on Hungary.
During Old Fritz's reign, the Prussian army was THE most snappily dressed army on the fields. So of course everyone was wearing wigs. That long ponytail Prussia is sporting is partially artistic license as it was generally braided to the end - but they were really that long.
Technically speaking "that evil man" refers to Old Fritz.
oh no, of course they didn't escape the trend
the first person to tell the difference/identify everyone here gets a request :d
Michael of Poland had an awesome wig. I have no doubt whatsoever that (as written in The Strange Story of False Hair) the equivalent of 10 heads of hair went into that wig.
The wig craze began in France (like most fashion trends); Louis XIV unfortunately went bald in his early thirties so he had to preserve his dignity somehow. Of course soon enough it became wildly fashionable and people were literally shaving their own hair off so their wigs would sit better. (Also: issues about lice in hair due to the washing it once a year thing? Solved.)
Gentlemen wore turbans at home; it was considered a state of undress (or dashingly bohemian, depending on how you choose to look at it).
By the 1770's men (in England at least) had mostly moved away from wigs and wore their own hair, powdered. By the 1800's, influenced by the French Revolution, short hair was de rigueur.
Prinny = George IV's nickname when he was still Prince of Wales (and he was Prince of Wales for a very long time). He was grossly overweight but that didn't stop him from trying to be fashionable.
...
bonus: chonmage (THE samurai hairstyle)
Hetalia characters in wigs.
That's all this post is.
Mix work with pleasure, I always say.
I'd just been to the National Portrait Gallery on another of those illustration dept. field trips and there is nothing quite like the exquisite sameness engendered by a room hung with portrait upon portrait of Whigs in wigs. I recommend the portrait of Handel that's in the next room over to anyone who decides to venture in, it really shows off how terrible dark, thick, Arthurian eyebrows look when you're wearing a white-powdered wig.
By the way, the longer/fuller your wig was, the smarter you were supposed to be. Doctors and lawyers kept on wearing the full-bottomed wig long after other men had moved to to shorter, less cumbersome styles, and the full-bottomed wigs that judges still wear today in court are a legacy of this.
And yes kids wore wigs too (only on the Continent, sneers Arthur).
The infamous "sailing ship" pompadours for women (apparently the coiffures reached 2'6" in height) were an exclusively French fashion, so I didn't inflict them on Hungary.
During Old Fritz's reign, the Prussian army was THE most snappily dressed army on the fields. So of course everyone was wearing wigs. That long ponytail Prussia is sporting is partially artistic license as it was generally braided to the end - but they were really that long.
Technically speaking "that evil man" refers to Old Fritz.
oh no, of course they didn't escape the trend
the first person to tell the difference/identify everyone here gets a request :d
Michael of Poland had an awesome wig. I have no doubt whatsoever that (as written in The Strange Story of False Hair) the equivalent of 10 heads of hair went into that wig.
The wig craze began in France (like most fashion trends); Louis XIV unfortunately went bald in his early thirties so he had to preserve his dignity somehow. Of course soon enough it became wildly fashionable and people were literally shaving their own hair off so their wigs would sit better. (Also: issues about lice in hair due to the washing it once a year thing? Solved.)
Gentlemen wore turbans at home; it was considered a state of undress (or dashingly bohemian, depending on how you choose to look at it).
By the 1770's men (in England at least) had mostly moved away from wigs and wore their own hair, powdered. By the 1800's, influenced by the French Revolution, short hair was de rigueur.
Prinny = George IV's nickname when he was still Prince of Wales (and he was Prince of Wales for a very long time). He was grossly overweight but that didn't stop him from trying to be fashionable.
...
bonus: chonmage (THE samurai hairstyle)