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The ducktail is a men's haircut style popular during the 1950s. It is also called the duck's tail , duck's ass , duck's arse , or simply D.A. and is also described as slicked back hair . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The hair is pomaded (greased), combed back around the sides, and parted centrally down the back of the head.
The development of hair-styling products, particularly setting sprays, hair-oil and hair-cream, influenced the way hair was styled and the way people around the world wore their hair day to day. Women's hairstyles of the 1950s were in general less ornate and more informal than those of the 1940s, with a "natural" look being favoured, even if it ...
Very short cropped hairstyles were fashionable in the early 1950s. By mid-decade hats were worn less frequently, especially as fuller hairstyles like the short, curly poodle cut and later bouffant and beehive became fashionable. [30] [40] "Beat" girls wore their hair long and straight, and teenagers adopted the ponytail, short or long.
A variation is the portrait neckline. Deep or plunging neck These are low necklines, in either V, U or square shapes, that reveal various amounts of cleavage, and some even extending to the natural waist line. Funnel neck A neckline with fabric standing high and close to the neck, cut or knit in one piece with the torso rather than as an added ...
Child in the 1980s with a rattail. A rattail is a hair style that is characterized by a long "tail"-like element of hair growing downward from the back of the head. The rattail usually hangs naturally; however, it can be braided, treated as a dread, permed, straightened, poofed, or curled with an iron.
First Prize won at the Hairdressing Fashion Show London, 1935, using an Icall permanent-waving machine. The hair is shorter even than in the 1920s, revealing the ears and neck. The colors were achieved by adding pigments to the setting lotion. Afro permanent on a male resident of Miami Beach in 1972
A full beard without a moustache or neck hair, sometimes called a "lion's mane." [12] Chinstrap beard: Sideburns which are connected to each other by a narrow line of hair along the jaw, resembling a helmet strap harnessed to one's chin. [13] Circle beard A goatee in which the moustache is allowed to connect to the hair on the chin. [7]
Conk hairstyle. The conk was a hairstyle popular among African-American men from the 1920s up to the early-to-mid 1960s. [1] This hairstyle called for a man with naturally "kinky" hair to have it chemically straightened using a relaxer called congolene, an initially homemade hair straightener gel made from the extremely corrosive chemical lye which was often mixed with eggs and potatoes.