The "bob" haircut emerged on the fashion scene in the late 1920s with much debate and outrage. Women’s hairstyles had been worn long, and mostly styled up, for over 100 years.
Soon women were lining up outside of barbershops to be bobbed. New York reported over 2000 cuts a day! Men were none too happy about the invasion.
Economic Effects of Bobbing (from the Washington Post, 1925): The bobbed hair fashion has started a new industry, or at least set its wheels to whirling much faster--the beauty industry. Five years ago, there were 5,000 hairdressing shops in the United States; at the end of 1924 there were 21,000 established shops and several thousand transients. These figures, be it noted, do not include those barber-shops which do a rushing business with bobbing. Bobbing has led to the adoption of other aids to personal adornment, and the result is that beauty shops flourish everywhere throughout the land.
TOOLS USED FOR THE PERFECT BOB
"the bob" brought about the invention of the bobbie pin
The bobbed haircut made the nineteen twenties Flapper movement what it was, and sent many young women to their rooms in disgrace "until it grows back!". Like the made up face, hair didn't look "natural"; it was slicked down, glistening with brilliantine. The Shingle, which followed the Bob, cut the hair at the nape in a V-shape, exposing the neck. Shingles were accompanied by marcelled finger waves or spit curls at the temples. The most drastic version of the Flapper hairdo was the Eton crop, cut very short and close to the head, with a curl plastered tightly above either ear. Josephine Baker wore this style of slick, greased hair to great effect.
Use of heavy makeup influenced by silent movie
stars and the discovery of King Tut's tomb and the Egyptian eyeliner kohl accompanied the "bob".
Roaring Red Rebellion
Flapper Jane
young, fast, and brazen
heroine of the jazz
flamboyantly feminine
bobbed hair and rouge Kimberly Baransky
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