40 Vintage Photos Show Men’s Hairstyles in the Mid-19th Century

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Throughout much of the Victorian Era most men wore fairly short hair from just over the top of the ears at the start of the period to a moderately close cut towards the end of the 19th Century. This short hair was often accompanied by various forms of facial hair including mustaches, side-burns, and full beards.

Victorian men used different kinds of waxes and oils to keep their facial hair in shape, including wood frames used at night to keep their mustaches shaped. A clean-shaven face did not come back into fashion until the end of the 1880s and early 1890s.

Take a look at these vintage photos to see what hairstyles of Victorian men looked like in the 1840s and 1850s.