BOBBED HAIR.
Bobbed hair was the fashion 1000 years ago, and the Vikings had already invented a “ zipper.” These interesting facts have been established through the discovery near Tilsit, East Prussia, of a great Viking burial-place, dating from the ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries. Thus far 80 graves have been opened, but these are but a small part of the total. The discoveries are unusually rich. Each man’s grave contains three of four iron swords, as many as a dozen lance-heads, knives, bronze belt buckles, stirrups, and snaffles. The women’s graves contain bronze bracelets, rings, necklaces, cleverlyworked brooches, and head-bands. It was in one of these graves that the young woman with bobbed hair was found, as also “ zippers,” which were used in place of buttons or pins to secure garments.
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Waipa Post, Volume 39, Issue 3087, 10 December 1929, Page 7
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