a hair-raising afternoon adventure ~

[lookingland]

brigadier general thomas w. sherman wins the derring-"do" award for march with this coiff that just doesn't quit.

by today's standards if a man had such rowdy hair, he would have probably at least put a hat on it.

but this was a style in that era. yeah. people combed their hair like this on purpose. one day i'd like to see a Civil War movie in which people actually wear the hair of the period: high receding lines, wild comb-overs, the whole nine yards. and men didn't part their hair in the middle until very late in the century. in this era that was considered sissy.

i'm as guilty as anybody else in this matter. of my characters only Beasely is bald and everyone else is awfully long-haired (even Lewis's hair has been brushing his collar lately and he has always been the cleanest cropped of the lot of them). i also chickened out of giving James a more radical hairdo even though i wanted to because even though i've always considered him a dandy, i've never really been able to dress him for the part in my mind.



and get a load of those cuffs!
is it fetishy to think velvet on an
army uniform is hot?
anyway, it's a funny picture, but i guess no different than going through your 80s yearbook in which the class portraits are just tiny faces framed by a field of teased hair.

: D

okay, back to writing.

Comments

[pithhelmet.livejournal.com]

men didn't part their hair in the middle until very late in the century. in this era that was considered sissy

And, by George, I still consider it so! ;)

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

hahahahahaha ~ !

i used to spend time over at the vintage group id-ing pictures for people and people were always posting pictures of little boys and calling them girls or saying they didn't know if x was a boy or a girl (or worse yet calling little girls boys). i'd say: that's a boy (or a girl) and they would say: how can you tell?

the hair doesn't lie.

: D

[sparowe]

So... why not go for it? ;)

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

(giggles ridiculously)

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[ryan-howse.livejournal.com]

This is irrelevant, but I just picked up a copy of The Killer Angels at a used bookstore. Given the subject matter, I'm guessing you've read it. If so, how is it?

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

well it won the pulitzer prize in 1975 ~ i have a great deal of respect for shaara (and his story as a writer depresses the hell outta me, so don't read his biography ~ hahahahahaha).

as for the book, it's brilliant of course ~ if you're into that sort of thing.

it's not my style (i tend to shy away from historical fiction that's heavier on the history than the fiction, which, to its own credit, this is). but tells a helluva story ~ the kind that's so good you almost forget that it's true.

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