35 Vintage Photos Show Styles of Victorian Men in the Mid-19th Century

Throughout much of the Victorian Era most men wore fairly short hair from just over the top of the ears at the start of the period to a moderately close cut towards the end of the 19th Century. This short hair was often accompanied by various forms of facial hair including mustaches, side-burns, and full beards.

Victorian men used different kinds of waxes and oils to keep their facial hair in shape, including wood frames used at night to keep their mustaches shaped. A clean-shaven face did not come back into fashion until the end of the 1880s and early 1890s.

Here is a set of vintage photos that shows what Victorian men looked like in the mid-19th century.