Wednesday, 7 October 2026

Banner of the Saint Petersburg Hairdressers' and Barbers' Guild, Founded in 1785

Blue silk banner with gold fringe and a laurel wreath, showing at the centre a bust of a woman in a red dress with a high hairstyle and two wigs beside her.

The badge of the Russian Craft Board of the Hairdressers' and Barbers' Guild, established on 26 April 1785. Tell me, am I the only one who finds it slightly ghoulish that a hairdresser's dummy is rendered as a living body, which looks lopped off and mounted on a stand?

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