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19925	Andrews, William	At the Sign of the Barber's Pole: Studies In Hirsute History			.txt	text/plain	25130	1431	78	cut hair, made wigs, bled, dressed wounds, and performed other offices. Long days are usually worked in the barber's shop, and many attempts Corporation: "Ordered that no barber open his shop to shave any man [Illustration: A Barber's Shop in the Time of Queen Elizabeth.] customer was waiting for his turn in a barber's shop to pass his time bygone times, the barber acted as a kind of surgeon, or, to state his time progressed the London Company of Barbers increased in importance. reign it was considered a mark of fashion to dye the beard and to cut old-fashioned barber, who dressed the only three wigs in the parish, for a time the custom of wearing powder for the hair; by which Medical men kept up the custom of wearing wigs for a long period: Several old laws regulated wearing the beard in the bygone times. quarters the barber was visited, and the cherished moustache and beard	./cache/19925.txt	./txt/19925.txt