THE WEDGE HAIRCUT BACK VIEW SERIES

Valentina, the transgressively erotic heroine of a surreal Italian comic strip series created by Guido Crepax in 1965, sported an iconic bob inspired by Louise Brooks (as well as by Crepax's own wife Luisa). Those associated with the bob at that time included the fashion designers Mary Quant and Jean Muir, actresses Nancy Kwan, Carolyn Jones, Barbara Feldon and Amanda Barrie, and singers as diverse as Keely Smith, Cilla Black, Billie Davis, Juliette Gréco, Mireille Mathieu and Beverly Bivens of the American group We Five. Its resurgence coincided with the arrival of the ' mop top' Beatle cut for men. In the mid 1960s, Vidal Sassoon made it popular again, using the shape of the early bob and making it more stylish in a simpler cut. Īnna Wintour with a bob haircut and a fringe/bangs Hairdressers, whose training was mainly in arranging and curling long hair, were slow to realise that short styles for women had arrived to stay, and so barbers in many cities found lines of women outside their shops, waiting to be shorn of hair that had taken many years to grow. Popularized by film star Mary Thurman in the early 1920s and by Colleen Moore and Louise Brooks in the mid to late 1920s, it was still seen as a somewhat shocking statement of independence in young women known as flappers, as older people were used to seeing girls wearing long dresses and heavy Edwardian-style hair. However, it was artist and illustrator Clara Tice who was the first public person who used it the United States. It has been said that renowned dancer and fashion trendsetter Irene Castle introduced her 'Castle bob' to a receptive American audience in 1915, and by 1920 the style was rapidly becoming fashionable.

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Brigitte Bardot.Įnglish society beauty Lady Diana Cooper, who had bobbed hair as a child, kept the style through her teenage years and continued in 1914 as an adult. Among his clients were world-famous female personalities like Coco Chanel, Queen Marie of Romania, Sarah Bernhardt, Greta Garbo, U.S. In the 1920s, he introduced the shingle cut which became popular with daring young women-the Bloomsbury set and flappers. In 1909, Antoni Cierplikowski, called Antoine de Paris, Polish hairdresser who became the world's first celebrity hairdresser, started a fashion for a short bob cut, which was inspired by Joan of Arc. Although young girls, actresses and a few 'advanced' or fashionable women had worn short hair even before World War I -for example in 1910 the French actress Polaire is described as having 'a shock of short, dark hair', a cut she adopted in the early 1890s -the style was not considered generally respectable until given impetus by the inconvenience of long hair to girls engaged in war work. Historically, women in the West have usually worn their hair long. A 1920 newspaper article by Djuna Barnes proclaims 'Bobbed Hair's the Thing!'

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