Sunday, October 05, 2014

Dundreary whiskers

These were an exaggerated sort of sideburns, first popularized in the play, Lord Dundreary. According to Sir Osbert Lancaster, Henry Burton Buckley, 1st Baron Wrenbury, was 
the last man in London to wear Dundreary whiskers in 1869.


Dundreary whiskers

1 comment:

nanny said...

nasty! Someone should have chopped those things off in his sleep!