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    A Century of Hairstyles
    A Century of Hairstyles
    A Century of Hairstyles
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    A Century of Hairstyles

    By Pamela Church Gibson

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    Nothing defines a person like their hairstyle – and what a century it has been for hair! Bangs, bobs, buns, beehives and bouffants have vied with pixie cuts, pin curls, perms and pageboys for ascendancy in an ever-changing parade of ladies' looks and trends, and amongst the men we've seen caesers, comb overs, ducktails, faux hawks, flattops, quiffs and slick backs. From the Edwardian era through the seismic changes of the 1920s and '60s, and including every quirky twist hair history took on its way to the turn of the millennium, this book is a lush visual survey of a hundred years of hairstyles.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateApr 10, 2014
    ISBN9780747814894
    A Century of Hairstyles
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    Pamela Church Gibson

    Pamela Church Gibson is Reader in Film & Cultural Studies at the London College of Fashion, Vice-Chair of the European Popular Culture Association, and Principal Editor of the refereed journal Film, Fashion & Consumption. She has published extensively on film, fashion, gender, and heritage over the last 25 years. Her books include Dirty Looks: Women, Power, Pornography (BFI, 1993), The Oxford Guide to Film Studies (1998, with John Hill), Fashion Cultures (2001, with Stella Bruzzi), More Dirty Looks: Gender, Power, Pornography (BFI, 2004), Fashion and Celebrity Culture (Bloomsbury, 2012) and Fashion Cultures Revisited: Theories, Explorations, Analysis (2013).

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      A Century of Hairstyles - Pamela Church Gibson

      Irene Castle and the Bob

      circa 1910–15

      Short hair – and the fringed ‘bob’ haircut still popular today – is usually thought to have become fashionable in the 1920s along with short skirts, fringed dresses and the Charleston. However, its origins are in the Edwardian era of elaborately styled hair. Eve Lavallière was the most popular actress in Paris – celebrity endorsement is not new – and she lent her name to scents, soaps and shampoos. In 1909, the top Parisian hairdresser Antoine (aka Antoine de Paris) cut her hair short for a particular role in which it was important that she look younger than her years. Four years later, on the brink of the First World War, the American ballroom dancer Irene Castle, seen here pictured with her pet monkey Rastus, cut her hair short because it was more practical for dancing, particularly for the tango, which she popularised. It is rumoured that she cut her hair herself, and women on both sides of the Atlantic would do the same during the war years when they went out to work, many for the first time. During those years, women worked on the land and in munitions factories to aid the war effort; most enjoyed this taste of social and economic independence. Short hair was an integral part of these new freedoms and would dominate the next

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