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Show Why Men Wear Long Hair. The ancient Britons, like the Gauls, wore long, bushy hair, beard and mustache. mus-tache. The Romanized Britons shaved their faces and adopted the shorter hair of their concpierors. The fiaxons, according accord-ing to Planche, are generally represented with long hair parted in front, forked beards and mustaches; but in the Tenth and Eleventh centuries, with the exception excep-tion of old men, they appear to have cropped their locks and shaved their chins, preserving only their mustaches. Longhair was a distinguishing characteristic char-acteristic of the Teutonic tribes. It was a mark of the highest rank among the Franks, none of whom, save princes of the blood and nobility, were permitted to wear it in flowing ringlets; an express law commanded the commonalty to cut their hair close round the middle of the forehead. Tho beard was also held in the greatest reverence by them, and to touch it stood in lieu of a solemn oath. Drv Goods Chronicle. |