Rachel Gibson
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170 appearances
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard Sep 2025
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You can go see them and they look exactly the same as the knit combs that we have today.
They haven't changed in design at all.
And I
Think
even if people didn't have access to running water and shampoo in the same way that we do, they were certainly in concerned with keeping things out of the hair and combing it and grooming it in such a way that it would keep clean.
Yeah, long hair is really associated with kind of health and vitality.
You know, if you can grow a thick, lovely, luscious head of hair, it's a really instant signifier to anyone that sees you that you are a healthy person.
And particularly for women, this has always been really intrinsically linked with kind of reproduction and being able to have children.
But you're right, for men too, having a lot of healthy hair tells the world that you are a healthy person.
No, it hasn't always been.
So when we think about powdered wigs and particularly in in England and in Europe, we have a a large period of time where men are wearing big powdered wigs and
There's a man who I like to talk about who is really kind of responsible for
What you just asked is he's called Francis Russell.
And in the 18th century, he decided to stop wearing a powdered wig.
There was um hair powder tax was brought in here in England in May 1795, and he was annoyed at having to pay this.
So basically, if you wore a powdered wig, you had to pay a tax.
And if you didn't pay the tax, you would be publicly vilified.
And he decided one day.
That he just wanted to stop paying this.
So he stopped wearing a powdered wig and he started being seen in polite society, in London society, with his natural, short, unstyled hair, which is the kind of hair that we see most men wear most of the time today.
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