Henry Lawson instead gives his name to an archetypical though dishevelled handlebar moustache, suggestive of booze, bars, bush ballads and tobacco.
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It’s curious that one of the writers most associated with the toughness of Australian bush life was himself not an exponent of the matted, rugged bushman sort of beard.
Henry Lawson instead gives his name to an archetypical though dishevelled handlebar moustache, suggestive of booze, bars, bush ballads and tobacco.
This exhibition illustrates changes in beards, moustaches and sideburns from the 1780s to the 1980s.
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