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During most periods in human history when men and women wore similar hairstyles, as in the 1920s and 1960s, it has generated significant social concern and approbation. [40] In the west, the Hippies and Punks are such groups that caused outrage for their overlaps in masculine and feminine presentation.
For the first time in history, fashion influences and trends were coming from more than one source. [9] Not unlike today, women and men of the 1920s looked to movie stars as their fashion icons. Women and men wanted to emulate the styles of Hollywood stars such as Louise Brooks , Greta Garbo , Rudolph Valentino , and Clark Gable .
Marcelled hair was a popular style for women's hair in the 1920s, [2] often in conjunction with a bob cut. [2] For those women who had longer hair, it was common to tie the hair at the nape of the neck and pin it above the ear with a stylish hair pin or flower. One famous wearer was Josephine Baker. [3]
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.
It became popular during the 1920s because it was ideal to showcase the shape of cloche hats. [1] It was worn by Josephine Baker , among others. [ 1 ] The name derives from its similarity to a hairstyle allegedly popular with schoolboys at Eton .
A hairstyle popular in the second half of the 17th century. French braid: A French braid is a braid that appears to be braided "into" the hair, often described as braided backwards—strands, going over instead of under as in a Dutch braid. French twist: A hairstyle wherein the hair is twisted behind the head into a sort of bun style. Fringe ...
During the jazz age of the 1920s and 1930s, hairstyles of this type were considered mainstream fashion. [4] Military barbers of the World War I era gave short back and sides haircuts as fast as possible because of the numbers, under orders to facilitate personal hygiene in trench warfare, and as nearly uniform as possible, with an eye to ...
Fass, Paula S. (2007) The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s. 2007. ISBN 978-0-19-502492-0; Gourley, Kathleen (2007) Flappers and the New American Woman: Perceptions of Women from 1918 Through the 1920s (Images and or of Women in the Twentieth Century). ISBN 978-0-8225-6060-9