Many styles common during early barber days

SHERMAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

In 1889 the Kansas City Times reported on a main street barber who had copyrighted a “unique hair-dresser’s fashion plate” showing forty-eight different views of hair styles. There were three or four styles of pompadour (hair swept upward and backward from the forehead, such as that revived by Elvis Presley in the 1950s), the “Saratoga,” the “Horse-shoe,” the “feather edge,” the “high peaked,” “society,” “square pompadour,” “tight clip,” “medium clip,” and “Bill Nye” styles.

There were seventeen different styles of trimming the beard.