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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 225, 28 January 1911, Page 9

WHEN ENGLISHMEN WORE PIGTAILS.

Pigtails, which nro threatened with extinction in China, survived in the English army until well into the nineteenth century, the Welsh Fusiliers being the ]n«t to abandon them. Sir Algernon West relates how lie heard an argument once in to whether the Bluos did or did not wear pigtails at Waterloo. One of the disputants, who had seen them on their way to Dover, was convinced that tliev did. The other, who had been a midshipman on the transport which conveved them to Ostend, was equally certain that their hair was short. The giver of the dinner at which the dispute arose referred the matter on the following; day to a friend who had served in the 'Rlues at Waterloo. "Both your friends were right," he said. "We were reviewed at Windsor by the King on our departure ivith our pigtails on, and at Dover we j had them cut off before our embarkation."