Patrick Wilson's hairstyle is pure "Interview with the Vampire", i.e. late-20th-century-Hollywood-does-French-speaking-characters :-P Just look at it... (Hurrah, this is a comment on my own journal, so I can post links!) http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/kirsten-dunst/images/96218/title/interview-with-vampire-photo?ir=true Though while Louis was originally an adult in the pre-Revolutionary era I believe the photo here is supposed to be from the scenes set in Paris in the 1870s: vampires clearly can't cut their hair, any more than they can grow up ;-)
Lord Byron (who was very vain) certainly didn't have long hair: there are lots of pictures of him dressed in the fashion of his day. I don't know anything about Chateaubriand's hair, but his portraits seem to show him with a tousled crop of a conventional length: I can't see any sign in a quick Web search that anyone was wearing long hair as late as the 1870s, Romantisme or not... Here's a selection of hairstyles from paintings across the relevant period: http://www.thefashionhistorian.com/2010/05/cravat.html
Oscar Wilde and his aesthetes were about the only people who had even collar-length hair, as mentioned in my comment about the unfortunate Philippe (for whom I have a lot more time than apparently anyone else!), and everyone laughed at them... I really don't think Patrick Wilson's Raoul could have gone out in the street like that without people staring at him as if he were some kind of savage :-P
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Patrick Wilson's hair
Date: 2014-07-27 05:50 pm (UTC)Just look at it... (Hurrah, this is a comment on my own journal, so I can post links!)
http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/kirsten-dunst/images/96218/title/interview-with-vampire-photo?ir=true
Though while Louis was originally an adult in the pre-Revolutionary era I believe the photo here is supposed to be from the scenes set in Paris in the 1870s: vampires clearly can't cut their hair, any more than they can grow up ;-)
Lord Byron (who was very vain) certainly didn't have long hair: there are lots of pictures of him dressed in the fashion of his day. I don't know anything about Chateaubriand's hair, but his portraits seem to show him with a tousled crop of a conventional length: I can't see any sign in a quick Web search that anyone was wearing long hair as late as the 1870s, Romantisme or not...
Here's a selection of hairstyles from paintings across the relevant period: http://www.thefashionhistorian.com/2010/05/cravat.html
Oscar Wilde and his aesthetes were about the only people who had even collar-length hair, as mentioned in my comment about the unfortunate Philippe (for whom I have a lot more time than apparently anyone else!), and everyone laughed at them... I really don't think Patrick Wilson's Raoul could have gone out in the street like that without people staring at him as if he were some kind of savage :-P