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The short back and sides dates back to the Roman empire, as the regulation haircut for legionaries. Besides preventing the spread of lice, short hair and a clean shaven face prevented the enemy from grabbing a soldier by the beard. By the first century AD, Roman hairstyles were imitated by non-Roman subjects who admired the civilization that ...
Braided hairstyle popular with German women, in which the hair is braided and piled atop the head. [3] Half crown: Alternative and historic name for a semi-short taper. Half updo Popularized in the 1960s by sex icons like Brigitte Bardot, this women's hairstyle requires medium-length or longer hair. The hair is divided from the temples back and ...
Roman men who wore beards would not be admitted into the senate unless they shaved. [59] A bust of Tiberius' nephew, Germanicus, demonstrating the traditional Claudian hairstyle of short front and sides and long back. From the Louvre, Paris. Despite rigid class expectations, there were exceptions to social custom when it came to mens' hairstyles.
The Best Medium-Length Hairstyles for Thick Hair Getty Images If you've got thick hair, you know the constant struggle of looking at the latest and greatest hair trends and wondering just how hard ...
Female figure with elaborate coiffure and hairpins, 1st century BC. Hopi woman dressing hair, ca. 1900. A hairstyle, hairdo, haircut or coiffure refers to the styling of hair, usually on the human head but sometimes on the face or body. The fashioning of hair can be considered an aspect of personal grooming, fashion, and cosmetics, although ...
A mid-1970s example of the pageboy haircut. The pageboy or page boy is a hairstyle named after what was believed to be the haircut of a late medieval page boy. It has straight hair hanging to below the ear, where it usually turns under. There is often a fringe (bangs) in the front. [1] This style was popular in the mid-to-late 1970s and 1980s.
17 GORGEOUS 10-MINUTE HAIRSTYLES. 1. Two-minute easy updo tutorial by Hello Natural. A romantic, but casual updo that anyone can do by themselves, with just an elastic headband. 2.
Ducktail. Duck's ass or D.A. 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.