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in which year men started wearing ponytails ?
who started with that ?
I think it was Christophor Columbus.
or perhaps an ancient chinese emperor?, you do see alot of the chinese or japanese portrayed with a ponytail of sorts, more of a rattail but definitely long hair. interesting query.
doing a bit of research......found this....
"Braids, ponytails and strange head shaving patterns have been common in China
since the time of the earliest human settlements. Bone needles found in
archaeological excavations in places like Banpo, Shaanxi Province, were
probably used to hold hair in place, showing that a cool coiffure was de rigueur
in the Middle Kingdom long before the invention of the hair salon. By the Tang
Dynasty (618-907), hairstyling techniques had advanced to the point where oils
and unguents were used to hold up hair arranged in buns or twists resembling
teapot handles and wings of bats or butterflies. You can have your hair
arranged in the same way today at any photographerês studio"
I'm quite sure the native americans were also wearing ponytails and braids from a very early time....probably nothing can be solidly proven as to who was the first. I don't think I recall seeing viking ponytails??? hmmm going to look some more.
vikings sure. they braided anythign and everything.. there beards and such..
What about the Dark Ages ? I'm no anthropologist but theoretically because there wouldn't have been much in the way of things to cut hair with except a sharpened stone or similar men and women would have had to tie their hair back to avoid the cooking fires ?
Or perhaps when the first man went out hunting and couldn't see what was happening !! lol :-)
actually the "rat-tails" that you see Chinese men wear in a lot of kung fu movies is called a "queue". It's basically the front half of your head shaved, then the back braided down to the waist.