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Baroque women parted their hair down the middle, often using a cross or a round parting in their hair. They also had curls that trimmed their foreheads and fell like ringlets down the sides of the face, sometimes these ringlets were quite thick.
Baroque men grew their hair long, often to the waist, as curls and goatees became the leading fashion.
There were a few styles that had names and these are listed here for your use and enjoyment.
| HAIR STYLES OF 17TH CENTURY FRANCE |
| Chignon |
A knot of hair worn halfway up the back of the head. In the early 1630's it was used while the rest of the hair was drawn back from the forehead with side partings on both sides of the head with curls hanging from them and sometimes at the back of the neck |
| Coiffure en Bouffans |
A style, from the end of Louis XIII reign, in which tufts of crimped hair was worn over the temples while the forehead was covered by fringe known as a "garcette" |
| Hurluberlu or Hurlupe |
A style appearing about 1670 in which the hair is short, in a mop of downward-pointing ringlets all over the head, arranged fairly thick at the back of the head and neck |
| Serpentaux |
A style with almost straight hair hanging down |
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