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It turns out, despite this particular brand of
facial hair style being around as far back as at least 100 BC (with one of the
earliest known instances being in a mosaic of Alexander the Great), sideburns
were named after a specific man in the late 19th century.
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| Ambrose Burnside |
The man was politician, businessman, and Union Army
General, Ambrose Burnside. Burnside
sported a slightly unusual facial hair style with particularly prominent
“mutton chop” sideburns connected to a moustache, while keeping his chin shaved
perfectly clean.
While an extremely poor General, something he
himself was well aware of, Burnside’s popularity as a General and later
politician, in combination with the fairly unique formation of his whiskers,
helped start something of a new facial hair trend. Around the 1870s-1880s, this gave rise to
this facial hair style being named “burnsides”.
Within a few years of this, the facial hair down the
side of one’s cheeks, rather than being called “mutton chops” as it was at the
time in some regions, began being called a modification of “burnsides”, “sideburns”,
with the first documented instance of this being in 1887. Presumably the shift was from the fact that
this part of the “burnsides” facial hair style was on the sides of the face-
and of course, leaving the “burns” part in in homage to the aforementioned
style.
Shortly after “sideburns” popped up, an alternate
“sideboards” also made its debut, with “boards” thought to have been shortened
from “border”, so essentially “side-boarder”, which is a fitting description of
the style. (source: todayifoundout)
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