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Polish halfshaven head(podgolony łeb, łaszczówka) - is a traditional polish noble haircut, associated mainly with sarmatism, but worn by Poles in Middle Ages too. It's maked by shaving hairs above the ears and on the neck on the same height, with longer hairs on the top of the head. For hundreds of years it was a typical of Poles.

History
Origins of halfshaven head aren't clear: today is impossible to say how many old it's. It was worn probably before the XII century to his slow disappareance in  XVIII century. About "polish halfshaven head" in Middle Ages wrote f. ex. an anonymous franciscan from 1308, Wincenty from Kielcza (half of XIII century), austrian poet Zygfryd Helbling(end of XIII century)  swearing on polish and czech influences. In Chronicle of Mierzwa(beginning of XIV century) from Cracow we can also read that prince Leszek the Black(dead in 1288) grew his hair to ingratiate himself with Germans, so it was an scandal both in his times and in times of chronicle. In graphic sources there are paten(half of XIII century) from Płock cathedral founded by Konrad Mazowiecki, and the paten founded by Mieszko the Old(year 1195) to the monaster of cistercians in Ląd, and floor from Wiślica(years 1175-1180).

Halfshaven head and the other Slavs
It's posible that not only Poles, but also other Slavs worn a halfshaven head. British franscescan Bartholomeus Anglicus in year 1235 wrote in his encyclopedia, that mostly all the Slavs, exept Ruthenians and Slavs mixed with Germans and Latins, shave their heads. Bartholomeus, who lived in Magdeburg from several years know good the slavic lands. Slavic lands he understanded as area from Saxonia to Ruthenia and from Dalmatia, Carinthia and Serbia to the Baltic Sea. About shaven heads, and dislike to beards wrote also Saxo Grammaticus when writing about the temple of Arcona. He write, that according to the common custom, only priests could grow long hairs and beards. In a saxon manifesto against slavic pagans from year 1108 is mentioned that Slavs simulated Saxones during the attack by wearing their scalps .. Saxones grew long hairs, so polabian haircut have to be very different: very short. So, the custom of shaving hairs, in XIII century recognised as polish, have to have bigger dimensions. In old croatian tombs razors are often finded too, but the problem about dimensions of halfshaven head custom in other Slavic lands than Poland is still not investigated.