15. The Victorians’ idea of romance could be downright weird, as one particularly hairy card shows
The Victorians were big fans of Valentine’s Day cards. But their ideas of romance were a long way from modern ones. Historians of the era have uncovered many downright bizarre romantic gestures. In 2014, the York Castle Museum in the north of England revealed its strangest Valentine’s Day card, with real human hair glued on top of the greeting to resemble a man’s mustache. The quirky attempt at Victorian-era human included a caption that reads: “For The New Woman! With St. Valentine’s Heartiest Greetings and Best Hopes that she will receive another (mustache) – With A Man Attached.”
