1920's Beauty Trend and Hair Style

Whether you’re inspired by Board-walk Empire’s forever beautiful cast of prohibitionist-era women, films like Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby or vintage classics such as Dorothy Parker, Gilda Gray or Clara Bow, one fact remains true: women of the 1920's were worthy of admiration. Not just on a fashion and beauty level, but on political and social levels, too. The 1920's represented a surge in “girl power” — it’s when women gained the right to vote, weren't afraid to cut their hair, play with make-up or even (gasp!) drink and dance

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Hair style of 1920's created of more controversy in hair fashion then in any other period in American culture. And one hairstyle, known simple as the "bob", would be at the centre of this great debate. first introduced during the Great War, the bob hair cut would eventually cause a revolution in the way women would wear their hair- forever more.

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It all started in 1915's with the debut of the Castle Bob, named after the celebrated ballroom dancer Irene Castle. While cutting her hair for convenience, little would she know that she would forever be associated with triggering a revolution in 20th Century hair fashion. The Castle bob would be the first indication of things to come - the rage of short hair.

By 1921, fallowing the lead of fashion designer Coco Chanel and actress Clara Bow and Louise Brooks, young women everywhere took the plunge and began bobbing their hair.

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As the younger generation eagerly embraced this latest fad, women all of the ages would soon find themselves having to face critical decision to bob- or not to bob. Many were fearful of taking the plunge only to discover that long hair would quickly be back in vogue . In fact, professional hair publications predicted an immediate return to long hair. However, it was difficult to ignore the continued popularity of the bob.

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Back in the 1920's hair styling tools weren't exactly what we know today, so back then they were created with wet hair and a load of hair gel, and fingers.

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