Mesquite High School - Mesquite O Yearbook (Mesquite, TX)

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Right: The bag wig and the bob wig, with rows of curls about the sides of the head, were popular colonial styles for men. The more comfortable, wigless look was intro- duced by Benjamin Franklin. Y Guy 325 ff X 197'-? K fix W 5' 5, H au is E X9 Q und I 5 20 ,'Q'Zf' , .xg :rfb f .. i Qs E 'xg' ff i 'N PM - a i 1'6 4? ' ' ME? ii iq, I f , A, :Y g.: ,ii 'mi ,li V 1:12-i. , 1 ff, Yi T'Sf'Q'1x ' . A 41 Era-2-- f 1' 5533- jx'-5. ,-' -v ff, 'Q pp li' If Ill 1 - . feiii, i . ii ?Ei 1 I fr 322i '- :' + ' Q- if E Ee-53 it . 4 fl.:- L 3 ' - , nf 52' 533 33 fl -- Righz: Today's styles in clothes and hair are much simpler than in 1776. Colonial women had to wear huge wigs, wired dresses, and beauty spots to be fashiona- ble. -v+ 58-., lea 'LJ '. 1 9:7 V , Q 1 i 5

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'lniiixv i- in I 1 rn-wx 'sHow little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy. - Thomas Jefferson