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White is the color of your arm and the red stands for the blood. In those days, "bleeding" yourself was thought to promote health and dispell sickness. Even women had their own "couture" razors in which they bled themselves with.
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The modern barber pole originated in the days when bloodletting was one of the principal duties of the barber. The two spiral ribbons painted around the pole represent the two long bandages, one twisted around the arm before bleeding, and the other used to bind is afterward. Originally, when not in use, the pole with a bandage wound around it, so that both might be together when needed, was hung at the door as a sign. But later, for convenience, instead of hanging out the original pole, another one was painted in imitation of it and given a permanent place on the outside of the shop. This was the beginning of the modern barber pole. http://www.barberpole.com/history.htm Other source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber's_pole You notice too many things, MG ;)
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Barbers were also surgeons in older times. The role of the barber was a lot more important than it is today, and it was important that barber shops were easily recognizable. Supposedly, there are different theories on the pole colors themselves. Some nations used their flag colors as the stripes. The colors of the more prominent red-white-and blue strips may have come from the French flag. It is also theorized that the colors represented surgery, red being arterial blood, blue being veinous blood, and white being the color of bandages used in surgery.
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Interesting. "The origin of the barber pole is associated with the service of bloodletting. During medieval times, barbers also performed surgery on customers. The original pole had a brass basin at the top (representing the vessel in which leeches were kept) and bottom (representing the basin which received the blood). The pole itself represents the staff that the patient gripped during the procedure to encourage blood flow. The red and white stripes symbolize the bandages used during the procedure: red for the blood-stained and white for the clean bandages. Originally, these bandages were hung out on the pole to dry after washing. As the bandages blew in the wind, they would twist together to form the spiral pattern similar to the stripes in the modern day barber pole. The barber pole became emblematic of the barber/surgeon's profession. Later the cloths were replaced by a painted wooden pole of red and white stripes." Source and more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber's_pole
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See Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber's_pole
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as late as early Victorian times barbers would also do surgery the red on the pole symbolizes blood and the white is bandages. but, unfortunately im at a loss for the blue.
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Hmm, wierd, this one did not come up in the dupes choices. Doh.
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