False Beards
Series
- Series Name
- Colour Pictorial
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 3
- Summary
- NoS Summary - A Marylebone wig-maker, Eric Fordyce, specialises in making false beards; a customer tries one.
- Researcher Comments
- Commentary: Sampling the charm of dead decades were the men we discovered facing away from today. For they were being fitted with trim Victorian beards they believed would give them a new outlook on modern times. Going back into the past to climb the pinnacle of fashion is really something for the charmers.
- Keywords
- Fashion and costume
- Locations
- London; England; Marylebone
- Written sources
- British Pathe online database
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- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Brian Cobby
- Length of story (in feet)
- 281
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How to cite this record
'False Beards', Colour Pictorial Issue No. 399, 20 Aug 1962. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/121257 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)