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File: Pablo Picasso, 1906, Femme se coiffant (Woman Combing her Hair), crayon, charcoal on paper.jpg
Girl combing her hair or Young girl with a mirror, 1909, The New Necklace, 1910, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Figurine, 1921, Smithsonian American Art Museum.
The suite of pastels all featured nude women "bathing, washing, drying, wiping themselves, combing their hair or having it combed" and were created in readiness for the sixth and final Impressionist Exhibition of 1886. [1]
Cassatt's Coiffure shows a nude woman adjusting her hair bun. [3] The nudity of the model is intentionally abstracted, as a result of Cassatt's homage to the Japanese style. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] Cassatt also produced a companion piece to The Coiffure , titled Woman Bathing .
The waving itself was safe if care was taken to keep the tongs away from the scalp. The procedure was to comb a lock of hair towards the operator, moving the comb slowly with one hand to maintain some tension, while applying the tongs to the hair successively down the lock of hair towards the point.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti – Woman Combing Her Hair (1865) Combs can be used for many purposes. Historically, their main purpose was securing long hair in place, decorating the hair, matting sections of hair for dreadlocks, or keeping a kippah or skullcap in place. In Spain, a peineta is a large decorative comb used to keep a mantilla in place. [5]
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Comb Sisters, also known as Self-comb Women [1] (自梳女; zìshūnǚ; zi 6 so 1 neoi 5-2), are a group of women who set up their own hairstyle in a way that resembles that of married women. This is seen as a demonstration of their determination to remain single for the rest of their lives.