Page boy and gamine looks became popular. Bobs were jaw length and more smooth, structured and flicked out at the ends. Housewives would wear their hair in a structured bob that sits on their head with gallons of hairspray.
Doris Day and Audrey Hepburn modeled bobs during this time. This style was the five point bob cut. It was short, geometric, angular, unfussy and easy to style at home. This inspired several new versions of the bob such as the Pillbox bob worn by Jackie Kennedy and the super short cut worn by Twiggie. The gradual transformation between the conservative fashions and hairstyles of the s into the younger, sportier looks of the s is somewhat similar to the changes in fashion during the s.
Young women took an interest in the future and wanted to distance themselves from the stuffy, austure views of their parents. Thoroughly Modern Millie , a musical film starring Julie Andrews is released in It is a jolly pastiche of the s flapper girl attitude and continues the late s love affair with s style and culture. Styles included flipped layers and the inverted bob. Normally the length was at the chin, but longer styles were also found.
Punk styles also emerged with anti-fashion coming into the limelight. Growing out bangs, straigtening hair and brushing the front to one side created an asymmetric look. As is usual with the 20th Century , the movies and media play a big part in promoting and popularising the fashion of the day with many women copying the styles of their filmstar idols. Strong female personas throughout history have been defined by their bob hairstyle. Also Joan of Arc in the 15th Century. Pioneer aviator Amelia Earhart wore cropped hair.
Richard the Third …well… for him, maybe not so much about the hairstyle. I think we all know what a bob looks like but the history of this much copied vintage hairstyle is just as exciting as the hairstyle itself. Celebrity hairdresser Antoine referenced the French heroine when creating his new bobbed hairstyle. It is introduced into his Paris salon around and creates a new fashion fad.
This is also the year that St Joan was beatified and the French become obsessed WW1 allied soldiers later carry her image with them to help defend France. At this time milliners still dominate over hairdressers — there had always been tension between the two competing professions. However, modernists such as Antoine are more willing to cooperate and cut styles that fit around the latest hat fashions.
The new bobbed hair becomes the perfect style to complement the fashionable cloche hat. Joan of Arc sported a short bob more for practical reasons back in the 15th Century and to disguise her gender during the years war between France and England. Cleopatra must also have had some influence on the bobbed style and the later flapper look.
Archaeology and antiquarianism had developed considerably in the late 19th Century and this was of great interest in the media.
Epic silent movie Cleopatra is popular in — starring the vampish Theda Bara below. The tomb of Tutankhamun and other mummified relics had been discovered by archaeologists by the s.
There was a fascination with these exotic styles and the controversial keepsakes that were brought back to Western Europe and America from aristocratic funders of the excavations. Technological advancements in ladies hair-styling devices, originally designed to help women speed up the lengthy styling process of long hair, are also becoming popular. The Marcel Iron is a curling iron that could produce controlled waves quickly.
It becomes an important tool for creating the Marcel wave later used to style bobs in the s. Marcel Grateau began using his secret waving iron techniques in the s on Parisian prostitutes — who competed to have the fanciest hair. He ends up making his fortune from this technique.
Previous to the curling iron, women had to curl their hair by simply using rags and letting the hair dry naturally. Finger-waving also became popular in the s as women mould their hair into amazing undulating shapes using just their fingers, curling lotion and a comb. In German hairdresser Charles Nestle introduces a machine in London that could produce a permanent wave which lasted for 6 months. The machine effectively used a boiled alkaline solution.
Not so good for the hair. Meanwhile, back in Paris , Eastern styles are becoming highly fashionable in following a run of Scheherazade by the Ballet Russe: pantaloons, turbans and looser shapes inspired by the Arabian Nights tales. The rising popularity of Art Nouveau design also has an influence on headwear, making shapes simpler and less fussy. By the time World War 1 breaks out, the new bobbed style of hair has reached the avant-garde bohemians in London such as the Bloomsbury Set.
The bob hairstyle becomes very much a European fashion amongst actresses, writers, bohemians and progressive women. French designer Coco Chanel has her hair bobbed in Some aristocratic women in the UK further popularise the bob haircut in the media. For example Lady Diana Cooper always wore a bob just as she did as a child. The story of the bob as a liberating haircut for women takes off in the USA in , almost by accident rather than design.
Irene Castle born is a famous American ballroom dancer and performer. She is dance partner to her husband Vernon. During the early s , they popularise the new social dances in both America and Europe and open fashionable dance schools. Irene endorses fashion designs and becomes a style leader for fashionable young ladies. Irene admits to being a very practical woman and had decided to cut her hair short prior to an appendectomy to avoid needing to comb her hair while in hospital.
She hides the short hair under a fashionable turban while it grows back. But a friend persuades her to wear the short style in public. Irene decides to go to dinner with her new short look uncovered and boom! This new style of short cut hair with little curls at the bottom is soon named the Castle Bob as ladies start to copy the new look. Irene Castle gives the short-haired look an air of respectability for American women.
Previous wearers of a short haircut were not considered respectable, such as French actress Polaire. Women are also becoming more active and health conscious and taking part in more athletic pursuits.
It is also considered more hygienic — a modern concern for the woman-about-town as access to hot water becomes easier and more affordable. This is picked up by the media and coincides with the advancement of consumer culture and technology.
Magazines of the day debate the idea of bobbing the hair and young women embrace the new look which distances them from the Gibson Girl feminine ideal. In a short story by F. The story is titled Bernice Bobs Her Hair and tells the tale of a young sweet girl who is transformed into an avenging vamp merely by getting a bob haircut.
The story becomes a talking point for the fashionable young ladies of New York. Fitzgerald claimed:. What little things we are to have caused all that trouble.
Fitzgerald called her the first American flapper. The bob will forever be defined as the s look as the female revolution quickly abandons old rules of femininity and fashion. After the personal freedom allowed them during the World War 1 , young women go out to work, get permission to vote, play sports and demand to leave the house unchaperoned oh my!
Women are becoming emancipated and financially independent, especially since so many men had been lost to the war or died from Spanish flu epidemic in the years that followed. Giving up long hair becomes a symbol of an independence and strength equal to men. The bob could not be swayed. It reemerged as its classiest incarnation in , which was blissfully filled with a new crop of celebrity bob and lobs everywhere.
The bob ended the year with Gone Girl 's pivotal hair scene. When Rosamund Pike popped up on screen with a seemingly one-length, lightly textured crop, women took notice. Rosamund brought her sought after hairstyle into with the Golden Globes and confirmed the Year of the Bob wasn't over. We hope that that's true for a long time to come. Photos: The best beauty looks from the PCAs!
Trending Stories. Although later co-opted by the mainstream to become status quo along with makeup, underwear and dress, as earlier Threaded posts described , the bob caused heads to turn pun! Perhaps a buzz cut would have been the late 20th-century version of the bob and we all would have gotten it, at least once.
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