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hairdresser Louise Landmier (January 1, 1904 - July 9, 1958) works on Marian Marsh’s look for 1937’s When’s Your Birthday?
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- Jan 1, 2013 (a Tuesday)
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- 6:16:26 (5 months ago)
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Frida Kahlo nude, in bathroom fixing hair
birthday suit for a birthday girl, July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954
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- Jul 6, 2012 (a Friday)
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- 1:54:01 (11 months ago)
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- Mar 21, 2012 (a Wednesday)
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- 1:31:14 (1 year ago)
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- Jan 9, 2012 (a Monday)
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- 2:04:05 (1 year ago)
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1926
- by Laure Albin-Guillot
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- Dec 16, 2011 (a Friday)
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- 6:43:19 (1 year ago)
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finger-wavering hello!
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- Dec 1, 2011 (a Thursday)
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- 2:15:21 (1 year ago)
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Women’s dressing room, Theatre Royal, Sydney, 1930’s
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- Nov 16, 2011 (a Wednesday)
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- 9:47:53 (1 year ago)
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Would this fancy hair-do be considered a “Marcell” (on steroids)? Early 20th Century Arizona woman from Cochise County. Found in the Irwin Archive, courtesy of the Douglas Historical Society.
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- Nov 2, 2011 (a Wednesday)
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- 10:11:31 (1 year ago)
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U.S. women were browbeaten into shaving underarm hair by a sustained marketing assault that began in 1915. (Leg hair came later.) The aim of the Great Underarm Campaign was to inform American womanhood of a problem that till then it didn’t know it had, namely unsightly underarm hair.
To be sure, women had been concerned about the appearance of their hair since time immemorial, but (sensibly) only the stuff you could see. Prior to World War I this meant scalp and, for an unlucky few, facial hair. Around 1915, however, sleeveless dresses became popular, opening up a whole new field of female vulnerability for marketers to exploit.
The underarm campaign began in May, 1915, in Harper’s Bazaar, a magazine aimed at the upper crust. The first ad “featured a waist-up photograph of a young woman who appears to be dressed in a slip with a toga-like outfit covering one shoulder. Her arms are arched over her head revealing perfectly clear armpits. The first part of the ad read ‘Summer Dress and Modern Dancing combine to make necessary the removal of objectionable hair.’” [see above image]
Within three months, the once-shocking term “underarm” was being used. A few ads mentioned hygiene as a motive for getting rid of hair, but most appealed strictly to the ancient yearning to be hip. “The Woman of Fashion says the underarm must be as smooth as the face,” read a typical pitch.
The budding obsession with underarm hair drifted down to the proles fairly slowly, roughly matching the widening popularity of sheer and sleeveless dresses. Antiarm hair ads began appearing in middlebrow McCall’s in 1917. Women’s razors and depilatories didn’t show up in the Sears Roebuck catalog until 1922, the same year the company began offering dresses with sheer sleeves. By then the underarm battle was largely won. Advertisers no longer felt compelled to explain the need for their products but could concentrate simply on distinguishing themselves from their competitors.
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- Oct 28, 2011 (a Friday)
- time:
- 3:35:00 (1 year ago)
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was this half bob, half wave-ish do, the Arnold Palmer of its day?
Young Girl with an incredible bobbed hairdo! c.1924
(via pickurselfup)
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- May 31, 2011 (a Tuesday)
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- 5:05:54 (2 years ago)
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Hair Bob Styles - Straight Hair Effect
This is a page from a Barber Exam Manual published in 1936 by Milady Publishing in New York City
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- May 26, 2011 (a Thursday)
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- 10:30:00 (2 years ago)
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two packages of Jean Hair Net (made of real human hair!), from 1936. the top one is regular size - dark brown, and the bottom one is bobbed size (!!!) - light brown
wish everything was made of ‘Invisitex’!!!
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- May 23, 2011 (a Monday)
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- 3:57:00 (2 years ago)
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Hours After Your Hair Has Been Dressed, Your Mirror Proves The Hump Hair Pin ‘Locks the Locks’
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- May 1, 2011 (a Sunday)
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- 11:39:00 (2 years ago)
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from a time before people had to ask, What About Bobbed???
Hairstyles for teenage girls, United States, 1910s. Having forgotten from which book it was, I can only guess it was from an old book of etiquette I once noticed over the internet.
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- Apr 28, 2011 (a Thursday)
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- 1:44:00 (2 years ago)
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Ella’s Beauty Shop (in Iowa?) ad, 1931
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- Mar 27, 2011 (a Sunday)
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- 3:34:00 (2 years ago)
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![U.S. women were browbeaten into shaving underarm hair by a sustained marketing assault that began in 1915. (Leg hair came later.) The aim of the Great Underarm Campaign was to inform American womanhood of a problem that till then it didn’t know it had, namely unsightly underarm hair.
To be sure, women had been concerned about the appearance of their hair since time immemorial, but (sensibly) only the stuff you could see. Prior to World War I this meant scalp and, for an unlucky few, facial hair. Around 1915, however, sleeveless dresses became popular, opening up a whole new field of female vulnerability for marketers to exploit.
The underarm campaign began in May, 1915, in Harper’s Bazaar, a magazine aimed at the upper crust. The first ad “featured a waist-up photograph of a young woman who appears to be dressed in a slip with a toga-like outfit covering one shoulder. Her arms are arched over her head revealing perfectly clear armpits. The first part of the ad read ‘Summer Dress and Modern Dancing combine to make necessary the removal of objectionable hair.’” [see above image]
Within three months, the once-shocking term “underarm” was being used. A few ads mentioned hygiene as a motive for getting rid of hair, but most appealed strictly to the ancient yearning to be hip. “The Woman of Fashion says the underarm must be as smooth as the face,” read a typical pitch.
The budding obsession with underarm hair drifted down to the proles fairly slowly, roughly matching the widening popularity of sheer and sleeveless dresses. Antiarm hair ads began appearing in middlebrow McCall’s in 1917. Women’s razors and depilatories didn’t show up in the Sears Roebuck catalog until 1922, the same year the company began offering dresses with sheer sleeves. By then the underarm battle was largely won. Advertisers no longer felt compelled to explain the need for their products but could concentrate simply on distinguishing themselves from their competitors.
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