George Bryan Brummell was a real 19th centurys dandy.

Men's hairstyles 1930 england. The 1930s were defined by economic turmoil and the Great Depression. Samuel gets a chic coif as he champions sailor style. Country women wore short hooded cloaks most often red.

Mens felt hats were worn with the brims flat rather than cocked or turned up. Thats What Gentlemen Looked Like From Between the 1840s and 1850s. The following article was written in 1894 and shows in great detail how to create a hairstyle of the period and shows how to twist the psyche-knot.

The men back then wore the variable Flattop hairstyles like the Boxy flattop hairstyles and the rounded flattop hairstyles. For this cut the back and sides are either shaved or cut really close. But for those living through it it was all about trying to maintain a sense of normalcy and dignity despite the hardships.

The look was for flat slicked shiny medium length hair. Hair was usually flat or rounded smooth on top. Once a mans hair was parted it was slicked down with a hair product that left the cut looking glossy and smooth.

The top hair is left longer and overhangs the close-cut sides. By the 1930s hair was getting slightly longer and softer in style and the sharp lines and shortness of the bob were no longer as fashionable. Mens Hairstyles Image 4 from Barber Instructor and Toilet Manual 1900.

As you see that the last mentioned hairstyles were mainly worn by the soldiers. Yet according to many the cut-off between Victorian and Edwardian was soft flexible and. Men wore their hair fairly short throughout this half century from just over the top of the ears at the start to a moderately close cut in the 1890s.