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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.
Frank Sinatra posed in a modified D.A. style of hair. This style required that the hair be combed back around the sides of the head. The tooth edge of a comb was then used to define a central part running from the crown to the nape at the back of the head, resembling, to many, the rear end of a duck. The hair on the top front of the head was ...
Typically, the hair on the top of the head is long and is often parted on either the side or center, while the back and sides are buzzed very shorter or shaved. [1] It is closely related to the curtained hair of the mid-to-late 1990s, although those with undercuts during the 2010s tended to slick back and top gelled up the bangs away from the face.
Kummer cut hair for 13 hours a day, sleeping in the back, but was challenged by mounting costs. [1] He promptly "invented a whole new way of cutting men's hair". [ 6 ] His innovations including shampooing men's hair before styling it, cutting their hair with scissors instead of clippers, and using blow dryers , which were popular in Europe but ...
Half vs full crown Short taper cut. Other names for this style of taper include full crown, tight cut, and fade. [12] [13]: 50 [14]: 40–43 [11]: 41–45, 100 [3]: 282 [15]: 133 The hair on the sides and back is cut with a coarse clipper blade from the lower edge of hair growth to or nearly full up to the crown. The clipper is gradually arced ...
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.
Kenneth Everette Battelle (April 19, 1927 – May 12, 2013), more usually known as Mr. Kenneth, [2] was an American hairdresser from the 1950s until his death. [3] Sometimes described as the world's first celebrity hairdresser, [4] Kenneth achieved international fame for creating Jacqueline Kennedy's bouffant in 1961. [5]
GQ (short for Gentlemen's Quarterly and previously known as Apparel Arts) is an international monthly men's magazine based in New York City and founded in 1931. The publication focuses on fashion, style, and culture for men, though articles on food, movies, fitness, sex, music, travel, celebrities' sports, technology, and books are also featured.