Hair. Big Hair.

BibliOdyssey has up a boggling array of satirical giant hair illustrations from the 1770s. Apparently, there was a reactionary wave of mockery in English and French presses to the ever-growing size of women’s hair styles at the time:

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These are so otherworldly. I feel like there’s a “Hair-onymus Bosch” joke in here someplace.

This illustration presents the typical man and typical woman of the time spliced together to accentuate the ridiculousness of women’s fashion:

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Head on over to BibliOdyssey for more images and source list.

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