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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 actors.
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.
The 1960s brought us The Beatles, Bob Dylan, beehive hairstyles, the civil rights movement, ATMs, audio cassettes, the Flintstones, and some of the most iconic fashion ever. It was a time of ...
The style, named after Madame de Pompadour (1721–1764), mistress of King Louis XV, is for both women and men. Quiff: The quiff combines the 1950s pompadour hairstyle, the 1950s flat-top, and, sometimes a mohawk. The hairstyle was an essential in the British 'Teddy Boy' movement, and became popular again in Europe in the early 1980s and 2010s.
The “C-Bob,” which is short for collarbone bob, is ideal for those who want to cut their hair short, but not that short. A typical bob sits just above the shoulders, but this subdued ‘do ...
Wide-brimmed "saucer hats" were shown with the earliest New Look suits, but smaller hats soon predominated. Very short cropped hairstyles were fashionable in the early 1950s. By mid-decade hats were worn less frequently, especially as fuller hairstyles like the short, curly poodle cut and later bouffant and beehive became fashionable.
Bouffant (derived from the French verb "bouffer," which means to puff or fluff up) hair became popular during the 1950s, but dominated in the 1960s thanks to the iconic Jackie Kennedy sporting the ...
David McCallum wore the hairstyle in the 1975 TV series The Invisible Man [4] and child actor Adam Rich popularized it for children in the series Eight Is Enough, which ran from 1977 to 1981. Roughly during the run of this show, 1977–1981, hairstyles of similar length over the ears became almost universal for American boys and even young men.