I can only assume that they wanted to go for what they thought was an
'aristocratic' look -- I'm not sure the decision is even mentioned in
the 'Making of...' documentary. But given that nobody in any period of
history I can think of actually wore their hair like that (the
only scene in which it looks vaguely authentic is the ball, when Raoul
wears his hair tied in a queue with military uniform), let alone in
the late nineteenth century, I can't imagine what they had in mind.
Conan the Barbarian?
Men in the 1500s wore their hair a little shorter than that, and
squared off in a fringe. Men in the 1600s wore it longer and often
curled, eventually resorting to wigs in order to obtain the
fashionable volume :-p Eighteenth-century aristocrats were notorious
for powdering their hair and/or wigs white (as seen in "Pirates of the
Caribbean") and wore it tied back in a pig-tail; after the Revolution
men stopped wearing hair below the collar at all, save for a handful
of elderly die-hards. But nobody that I can think of ever wore their
hair straight, shoulder length, and tucked behind the ears...
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I can only assume that they wanted to go for what they thought was an 'aristocratic' look -- I'm not sure the decision is even mentioned in the 'Making of...' documentary. But given that nobody in any period of history I can think of actually wore their hair like that (the only scene in which it looks vaguely authentic is the ball, when Raoul wears his hair tied in a queue with military uniform), let alone in the late nineteenth century, I can't imagine what they had in mind. Conan the Barbarian?
Men in the 1500s wore their hair a little shorter than that, and squared off in a fringe. Men in the 1600s wore it longer and often curled, eventually resorting to wigs in order to obtain the fashionable volume :-p Eighteenth-century aristocrats were notorious for powdering their hair and/or wigs white (as seen in "Pirates of the Caribbean") and wore it tied back in a pig-tail; after the Revolution men stopped wearing hair below the collar at all, save for a handful of elderly die-hards. But nobody that I can think of ever wore their hair straight, shoulder length, and tucked behind the ears...