Queue (hairstyle) - Other Queues

Other Queues

  • The queue is also a Native American hairstyle, as described in the book House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday. It is a Navajo or Diné way of dressing both men's and women's hair. The hair is rolled and tied with white yarn or cloth. It is called a tsiiyéél in Navajo.
  • British soldiers and sailors during the 18th century wore their hair in a style known as the queue. While not braided, the hair was similarly pulled back very tight into a single tail, but was wrapped around a piece of leather and tied down with a ribbon. The hair was also often greased and powdered in a fashion similar to powdered wigs, or tarred in the case of sailors.
  • In the 18th century it naturalized that European soldiers styled their traditionally long hair into a queue called the "soldier's queue" (Soldatenzopf), which was until then only allowed for noble Officers. That hairstyle first became mandatory in the Prussian army and several other Holy Roman states' forces under Frederick William I of Prussia.

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