>>18479469 (OP)
In the Victorian Age, it wasn't as stigmatized to be a balding man, so many simply allowed their hair to still grow out, somewhat. That's why you sometimes see poofy hair in very old photographs. Notice how many younger and fuller-haired men still had rather medium length to medium-long haircuts during the 1840s and 1850s, with the hair hovering over their ears. That was a general style back then, around the mid-19th century, until hair started trending shorter in the 1860s for the younger men.
