Stiluri în podoaba capilară din România modernă 1790-1920
Hairstyles in modern Romania 1790-1920

Summary/Abstract: The way one wore his or her hair was of no less importance in the modern times. During the Fanariotic rule only the high ranking boyars were allowed to wear long beards. The second and third rank boyars wore only moustaches. A man’s position was discernable from the distance due to the style of his beard and fine quality of his clothes. While the beard was long and flowing the head was shaved for keeping better the high fur cap called gudjuman or the globular ishlik. The barber was an important character always welcomed in a boyar’s residence. The boyars’ wives wore their hair long and decorated with flowers and precious jewells. But they soon gave up the old Oriental style for the more fashionable European hairdress with ringlets on both sides of the head. Some still wore the elegant cashmere turban

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