American hairdressers will wage war this year on the styles made popular by Cleo de Merode and Irene Castle, and they have planned to eliminate the vogue of bobbed hair by resurrecting women's ears after an interment of 25 years.
Ways and means to achieve this end will provide the principal discussion at the third annual convention of the American Hairdressers Association to be held at the Hotel Pennsylvania from Sept. 10 to Sept. 14. Early arrivals among' the 2,500 delegates expected say that the slogan will be: “Back to the crowning glory."
Bobbed hair and the "tonsure note," delegates now here say, has been doomed by the new styles in women's dresses. It does not conform to the flowing lines of the new frocks and skirts, they declare, and is nothing but painful in a weeping-willow scheme. Furthermore physicians blamed bobbed hair for backache and various ills.
Irene Castle was pointed out by the coiffeurs as the inspiration of the present, bobbed-hair wave. They recalled yesterday that her responsibility for the vogue was, in a way, accidental. The celebrated dancer suffered an illness, the aftermath of which was a haircut. The growing out did not keep pace with her convalescence, and when Miss Castle was sufficiently recovered to return to the stage in "Watch Your Step," her hair became a problem.
A hairdresser was hurriedly called in, and with what success Miss Castle’s reception on her appearance amply attested. Her chic "bob" was an immediate hit and spread all over the world. "Everybody Copies Me,” sung by Ina Claire in the "Follies," and written by Channing Pollock and Rennold Wolf, was inspired by Miss Castle's popular innovation.
To Bob or Not to Bob, Is Question
October 5, 1927
A few hundred hair dressers from all parts of the world are sitting in judgment in Paris trying to decide whether women’s hair shall continue bobbed or grow long again.
There are Antoine, Emile, and Eugene, and a lot of other monarchs of the trick hair convulsions, to say nothing of Marcel, whose wave cost American husbands $60,000,000 last year.
Before the first day of the world's hair congress was over the monarchs of the hair decided they must choose a name in keeping with an infant industry which promises to rank soon as the sixth industry in the United States.
Therefore, they voted to scrap the term "hairdresser" and substitute "beautician," since, they said, they are the real artists of beauty as applied to women.
Antoine wants all the women of the world waved a la American, with the head a mass of curls. Others are holding out for national independence in the matter of hair treatment, each country adopting that fashion which is in keeping with the beauty of its women.
French beauticians are pulling for what they call the "Resurrection," which consists of a string of portable curls stretching from ear to ear around the back of the head. It can be worn with an evening gown and leaves the neck untrammeled during the day.
Very short famous
bob hairstyle of Louise Brooks
This
was the celebrity hairstyle of the 1920s
decade popularized by American actress
Louise Brooks. Its defining features are
its shortness; angle of the "sideburns"
forward toward the mouth; and bowl-cut style or straight bangs. Similar: Isabella
Rossellini
Irene Castle was pointed out by the coiffeurs as the inspiration of the present, bobbed-hair wave. They recalled yesterday that her responsibility for the vogue was, in a way, accidental. The celebrated dancer suffered an illness, the aftermath of which was a haircut. The growing out did not keep pace with her convalescence, and when Miss Castle was sufficiently recovered to return to the stage in "Watch Your Step," her hair became a problem.
