Unlike those sporting conventional mutton-chops, observers of the Barkly (also known as ‘Piccadilly Weepers’ or ‘Dundrearies’) kept the rest of their faces hairless, allowing the pendant sideburns to drip, stalactite-like, along the jawbone.
A look involving very long, side whiskers that descended as far south as a gentleman’s lapels.
Unlike those sporting conventional mutton-chops, observers of the Barkly (also known as ‘Piccadilly Weepers’ or ‘Dundrearies’) kept the rest of their faces hairless, allowing the pendant sideburns to drip, stalactite-like, along the jawbone.
This exhibition illustrates changes in beards, moustaches and sideburns from the 1780s to the 1980s.
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