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Show Old Styles of Hairdresslng. Roughly speaking, through the Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth centuries the hair parted in the middle hung in flowing tresses, like a veil over the shoulders and back. Some jigger had to be worn to keep it In place. Both men and women wore crowns or "chapels." Crowns in those days didn't belong only to kings ami princes. Anyone could wear them. In Venice, In IfHKi, the hair was merely combed out. braided and gathered In a net. lint what a net! It was worth a king's ransom or nearly.. Petrarch's I.a'ura had "golden hair twisted Into a blond braid." |