Hair Styles Collection

Rock N Roll Dance
Rock and roll enthusiasts, dressed in 1950s clothes, including DA hairstyles, Teddy Boy jackets and spotted dresses which swirl to reveal stocking-tops!

1940s hairstyle
An elegant woman with an elaborate 1940s hairstyle decorated with pearls. circa 1940s

Cut and he will not come again by Reginald Higgins
An illustration showing a mermaid with the shorn, shingled Eton crop hairstyle of the 1920s, looking rather forlorn as she waits for her lover to return

The Conference of Kaw Indians with the United States Governm
Image showing the Kaw native American Indians appealing to the United States Commissioner of Indian Affairs to protect their land from settlers, 1857

Geisha girls at the seaside, Japan
Two Geisha girls in elegant Western-style striped bathing costumes recline on a studio beach set

Rock N Rollers
Rock and roll enthusiasts, dressed in 1950s clothes, including DA hairstyles, Teddy Boy jackets and spotted dresses which swirl to reveal stocking-tops!

Chinese Barber
In a Chinese barbershop, short back and sides is taken literally. circa 1911

Extravagant Hairstyle
The wretched consequences of trying to be fashionable : satire on the extravagant hairstyles of the period

1940s hairstyle suitable for very long hair
During the 1940s, elaborate hair was in. Due to the rationing during World War II, most women chose lovely hairstyles over new dresses. This style is suitable for very long hair. Date: 1940s

Compact pageboy bob hairstyle 1940s
During the 1940s, elaborate hair was in. Due to the rationing during World War II, most women chose lovely hairstyles over new dresses

Mandinka Girls - Sierra Leone, Africa
Mandinka Girls - Freetown, Sierra Leone, Africa. Different traditional hairstyles in evidence. Date: circa 1905

Cascade hairstyle 1940s
During the 1940s, elaborate hair was in. Due to the rationing during World War II, most women chose lovely hairstyles over new dresses. This hairstyle would suit evening wear, with its elegance

1940s hairstyles

Pompadour hairstyle 1940s
During the 1940s, elaborate hair was in. Due to the rationing during World War II, most women chose lovely hairstyles over new dresses. Pompadour hairstyle easily adopted for evening wear. Date: 1940s

Shingle hairstyle 1940s
Shingle updo combines elegance and practicability. Note the side and back view details, showing how the back hair is taken across horizontally. Date: 1930s

1938 hairstlyes for women
High hair with long straight back, side sweep and curls well forward on the crown where much the fashion in 1938. Date: 1938

Trafalgar hairstyle 1940s
During the 1940s, elaborate hair was in. Due to the rationing during World War II, most women chose lovely hairstyles over new dresses. This hairstyle was influenced by Horatio Nelson. Date: 1940s

Bulls eye hairstyle 1940s
During the 1940s, elaborate hair was in. Due to the rationing during World War II, most women chose lovely hairstyles over new dresses

The new Coxcomb of the 1940s

1940s hairstyle - Bow
Daisy Duck influence on this hairstyle of the 1940s. Date: 1940s

Advert for Eugene permanent wave 1922
A Permanent Wave as it SHOULD look Date: 1922

Classical style of the 1940s
During the 1940s, elaborate hair was in. Due to the rationing during World War II, most women chose lovely hairstyles over new dresses. 1940s

Change of contour hairstyle 1940s
During the 1940s, elaborate hair was in. Due to the rationing during World War II, most women chose lovely hairstyles over new dresses. A hairstyle with essential simplicity. Date: 1940s

Circular roll hairstyle 1940s
During the 1940s, elaborate hair was in. Due to the rationing during World War II, most women chose lovely hairstyles over new dresses

Forward movement hairstyle 1940s
During the 1940s, elaborate hair was in. Due to the rationing during World War II, most women chose lovely hairstyles over new dresses

D Elegance hairstyle 1940s
During the 1940s, elaborate hair was in. Due to the rationing during World War II, most women chose lovely hairstyles over new dresses

Semi-Edwardian hairstyle 1940s
During the 1940s, elaborate hair was in. Due to the rationing during World War II, most women chose lovely hairstyles over new dresses

Grecian contour hairstyle 1940s
During the 1940s, elaborate hair was in. Due to the rationing during World War II, most women chose lovely hairstyles over new dresses

V-shaped roll 1940s
During the 1940s, elaborate hair was in. Due to the rationing during World War II, most women chose lovely hairstyles over new dresses

Lady Godiva and her Eton Crop
Humorous illustration, the first in a series called Hushed Up History showing Lady Godiva, who famously rode naked through the city of Coventry with only her long hair to cover her modesty

Girls in Turkish Bath
Three young women with Marcel Wave hairstyles, relaxing together in an indoor Turkish bath. Date: 1930s

COSTUME 1774-1780
French costumes of the later 1770s include the examples of the high, elaborate hairstyles then worn, also the polonaise gown & pelerines. One lady wears a calash (folding hood). Date: 1774 - 1780

Roman Shoes & Jewellery
Various Roman shoes, jewels and hairstyles. Date: ANCIENT ROME

Triplet Sisters 1960S
18-year-old teenage sisters, in matching machine-crocheted tops and slacks. Date: 1960s

The Modern Girl by Reginald E. Higgins
Sub-titled, Silk and shingle, the artist Reginald Higgins draws his favourite subject, the shorn and shingled modern 1920s girl

Two Zulu Women
Absolutely fabulous postcard depicting two Zulu Women, wearing traditional multi-coloured bead and animal hide tabards, their hair shaped up into thin conical forms and wearing bright necklaces

Natives of Ugogo, East Central Africa, 1874
Fashion in hairstyles of the native Wagogo men of Ugogo in East Central Africa sketched by Lieutenant Cameron commander of the Livingstone Search and Relief Expedition in the late 19th century

Pigtails and Powder
Engraving of a watercolour by Frank Dadd showing a group of naval men or soldiers braiding and powdering their hair in a typical 18th century fashion

Married Couple 1960S
Have you met my wife? A man stands behind his wife, giving her a wry look... Date: 1960s

Naked pipers with classical hairstyles sit back to back and play a tune together

Greek Albanian Costume
The dress and hairstyles of Greek Albanian women of the Adriatic region

Japanese Coiffures
A variety of hairstyles for Japanese men and women

Symbolic cutting of pigtails in Shanghai, China
At Shanghai, 500 young men voluntarily relinquish their traditional pigtails, symbolising a new modernising spirit in China

Hairstyles / French 1919
Decisions, decisions... whether to cut it all off or not?

Bon Genre No. 65 Costume
Men wear English style country clothes: cut-away tailcoats with roll collars & breeches. The ladies wear white muslin dresses & classically inspired hairstyles

Quadrille Inconveniences
Inconveniences in Quadrille Dancing: a short gentleman struggles on tiptoe as he tries valiantly to turn two tall women with tall hairstyles

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