The Lunatic Fringe

From Mabel Grey To Modern Day… Oh The Moral Perils of Forehead Visibility!

“Of all the positively ugly modes now current, the mode of wearing the hair ‘banged’, or combed down over the brow and cut square is perhaps the ugliest. It had its origins, if we mistake not, in the demimonde of Paris, where so many fashions rise.”

— ‘The Lunatic Fringe’ in the Northern Warder, 14 October, 1880