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What's the history of the combover? My subjective impression is that you don't see it in portraits from before the 1950s, it peak in the '70s and '80s where every politician has one, and around 2000 all the balding men suddenly realized it made them look worse. Is this a real trend?

by /u/ArmandoAlvarezWF in /r/AskHistorians

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