Three Things

Carl Webb had 3 distinct phases – a young ginger haired boy at least to age 13. A blond haired guy for the majority of his life and my guess is to age 41 when Dorothy left him. He changed again drifting back to ginger/grey possibly because he was depressed and didn’t have access to his usual hair-dyer. Perhaps that was his sister.

We see him on the beach with dyed ginger/grey/dark hair age 43. He may have dyed his hair himself in some train station sink just before death.

So naturally everyone in Melbourne who knew him saw him as a blond guy. It may have been only Dorothy who would know him well enough seeing his undyed ginger hair under his arms.

He could have visited the toilets in Adelaide Railway station – dyed his har dark and with ginger/grey showing through.

He’d always had hair that was longer than normal for society from 1929 (blond haired Carl wth family) to his beach pose with longer ginger hair. Perhaps he was modelling himself on some idea he had of a poet. Swinburne was a long haired ginger guy when young.

https://imgur.com/gallery/bTuf16b

It was an observation about the SM that he had his hair longer than was normal for society in 1948. Pathology “rather long for a man”. Nails carefully attended to, “officer class”.

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