. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . barbers, in their squinting and fleeringat our clothes, and especially our wiggs, begin to border onmalevolence. Had not the caul of my wigg been of un-common stuff and workmanship, I think my barber wouldhave had it in pieces : his dressing it greatly resembles thefarmer dressing his flax, the latter of the two being thegentlest in his motions. Worcester Tories, among them Timothy Paine,had their wigs pulled off in public. Mr. Paineat once gave his dishonored wig to one of his negroslaves, and never after resumed wig-wearing. CHAPTER XII
. Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX . barbers, in their squinting and fleeringat our clothes, and especially our wiggs, begin to border onmalevolence. Had not the caul of my wigg been of un-common stuff and workmanship, I think my barber wouldhave had it in pieces : his dressing it greatly resembles thefarmer dressing his flax, the latter of the two being thegentlest in his motions. Worcester Tories, among them Timothy Paine,had their wigs pulled off in public. Mr. Paineat once gave his dishonored wig to one of his negroslaves, and never after resumed wig-wearing. CHAPTER XII THE BEARD Though yours be sorely luggd and tornIt does your Visage more adorn Than if twere prund, and starchd, and launder dAnd cut square by the Russian standard. — Hudibras, Samuel Butler. Now of beards there be such companyAnd fashions such a throng That it is very hard to handle a beardTho it be never so long. Tis a pretty sight and a grave delightThat adorns both young and old A well thatcht face is a comely graceAnd a shelter from the CHAPTER XII THE BEARD ENS hair on their heads hath everbeen at odds with that on their the head were well covered and thehair long, then the face was smoothshaven. William the Conqueror hadshort hair and a beard, then came along-haired king, then a cropped one; EdwardIVs subjects had long hair and closely cut VII fiercely forbade beards. The greatsovereign Henry VIII ordered short hair like theFrench, and wore a beard. Through Elizabethsday and that of James the beard continued. Notuntil great perukes overshadowed the whole facedid the beard disappear. It vanished for a centuryas if men were beardless ; but after men began towear short hair in the early years of the nineteenthcentury, bearded men appeared. A few Germanmystics who had come to America full-beardedwere stared at like the elephant, and a sight ofthem was recorded in a diary as a great event. There is no doubt that, to the general reader, the ordina
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