Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Hair in this style was an essential part of the "Gibson Girl" look in the 1890s. The pompadour is a hairstyle named after Madame de Pompadour (1721–1764), a mistress of King Louis XV of France. [1] Although there are numerous variations of the style for men, women, and children, the basic concept is having a large volume of hair swept upwards ...
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.
Popular music and film stars had a major influence on 1950s hairstyles and fashion. Elvis Presley and James Dean had a great influence on the high quiff-pompadour greased-up style or slicked-back style for men with heavy use of Brylcreem or pomade. The pompadour was a fashion trend in the 1950s, especially among male rockabilly artists and ...
Crew cut. A crew cut is a type of haircut in which the upright hair on the top of the head is cut relatively short, [1] graduated in length from the longest hair that forms a short pomp (pompadour) at the front hairline to the shortest at the back of the crown so that in side profile, the outline of the top hair approaches the horizontal. [2][3 ...
Eponymous hairstyle. Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford, originator of the short, unpowdered "Bedford Crop" in 1795, arguably the most influential innovation in hairstyles, as men's hair has mostly remained short ever since. An eponymous hairstyle is a particular hairstyle that has become fashionable during a certain period of time through ...
Drawing of a Gibson Girl by Charles Dana Gibson (c. 1891) The bouffant is a variant of the pouf hairstyle from the 18th century, popularly used in the aesthetics of aristocratic society and the upper socio-economic classes of the French Empire. The bouffant, along with similar hairstyles like the pouf and the pompadour, represented an exclusive ...
Jazz musician Eddie South, 1946. 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 ...
Beehive (hairstyle) The beehive is a hairstyle in which long hair is piled up in a conical shape on the top of the head and slightly backwards pointing, giving some resemblance to the shape of a traditional beehive. It is also known as the B-52 due to a resemblance to the distinctive nose of the Boeing B-52 Strategic Bomber. [1]