Figure 1.--Here we have a CDV showing an unidentified brother and children. The portrait is undated, but the mount style clearly dates to the 1860s. Note the short rather modern looking hair styles.

And we notice a changing popular lengths of hair in the 1860s. he 1840s-50s we see many boys nt bexactly with lng hair, but hair tha covers part or most of their ears. Many of us swould say they look like tey need a haircut. We mention the 1840s because ths when photography first provides large numbers of images so we can access popular trends. This changed dramatically in the 1860s. The standard hair cut for boys during e 1860s was relatively short, although in the 60s this commonly meant down to the ears. We do not see many shaved heads, a style becoming popuar in Europe. The Massachusetts boys here are a good examole (figure 1). They look decidedly modern. This was a major change as at mid-century nost boys had longer hair. We still see the longer styles, especially in the early-60s. The Lincoln boys were a good example. The longer cuts that some boys still wore were not a child's style. Men also wore them. Shorter cuts continued to become more popular in the 1860s, but we still see boys with longer cuts. A good example is an unidentified Boston boy during the 1860s. While boys wore what looks like decidedly modern styles, we see quite a number of boys wearing what we now see as rather gitlish styles like ringlet curls.

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