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 In the Aporuean continent, at least, human inhabitants share many sensibilities about hair with real world Europeans, especially those of a 15th-19th century timeframe. However, while some broad similarities between the attitudes are certainly visible, the details tend to differ, often surprisingly. One of the most noticeable differences occur among female hairstyles. Unlike in the real world, even the most ascetically minded Aporuean religions and churches tend to stress the importance of "chasteness" in female hair quite a bit less. You will still see plenty of women wearing headscarfs or bonnets of manifold types. But in Aporue, unveiled long hair isn't associated as much with "feminine seductiveness and indecency" (as it would be for much of medieval and early modern European history). Straight, pushed back, braided or puffier feminine hairstyles all exist in Aporue, but not all of them tend to be equally popular in every country and every culture.
-The attitudes of people towards the lenghth and amount of head hair (for both sexes) and facial hair (for males) are generally quite European. Men usually go with short hair, women with longer hair. Nevertheless, depending on the specific nation, current fashion or even just local habit, you can also see men with longer (and occassionally long) hair, or women with varyingly shorter hair (male-like short haircuts are rare, though). Wearing a ponytail is one style that is equally common among long-haired women and long-haired men, though it isn't the most popular hairstyle among longer-haired individuals.
+The attitudes of people towards the length and amount of head hair (for both sexes) and facial hair (for males) are generally quite European. Men usually go with short hair, women with longer hair. Nevertheless, depending on the specific nation, current fashion or even just local habit, you can also see men with longer (and occassionally long) hair, or women with varyingly shorter hair (male-like short haircuts are rare, though). Wearing a ponytail is one style that is equally common among long-haired women and long-haired men, though it isn't the most popular hairstyle among longer-haired individuals.
-Something of a cyclical recurrence throghout Aporuean fashion history are the connotations of certain hair lenghths and stylings with being a member of the nobility, or some other class of society. This is very dependent on specific national fashions, though - if its considered popular for men in one country to grow extravagant moustaches and have long hair, the very neighbouring country might go for something completely opposite, such as delicately short-cut hair and beards (or no facial hair at all).
+Something of a cyclical recurrence throghout Aporuean fashion history are the connotations of certain hair lengths and stylings with being a member of the nobility, or some other class of society. This is very dependent on specific national fashions, though - if its considered popular for men in one country to grow extravagant moustaches and have long hair, the very neighbouring country might go for something completely opposite, such as delicately short-cut hair and beards (or no facial hair at all).
 Aporueans have certain stereotypes about certain hair colours (especially those of head hair), though how much any individual follows these jokes or outright prejudices is up to him (or her). Unlike in the real world, most of the stereotypes or clichés associated with hair colours aren't the same. This applies regardless of whether we're talking about European-like cultures or not.