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One of P. T. Barnum's Circassian beauties wearing an afro. In the 1860s, a hairstyle similar to the afro was worn by the Circassian beauties.Sometimes known as "Moss-haired girls", they were a group of women exhibited in sideshow attractions in the United States by P. T. Barnum and others.
A women's hairstyle where different sections of the hair are cut at different lengths to give the impression of layers. Liberty spikes: Hair that is grown out long and spiked up usually with a gel Lob: A shoulder-length hairstyle for women, much like a long bob, hence the name. Mullet: Hair that is short in front and long in the back.
Women's hairstyles became increasingly long in the latter part of the decade and blunt cuts dominated. Blunt cuts of the late 1980s brought long hair to an equal length across the back. Bangs were popular, with "mall bangs", attributed to teenage girls who frequented shopping malls , were styled by ratting bangs into peaks or mounds, and then ...
These hairstyles became iconic during the mid-1980s and include big bangs worn by girls from upper elementary, middle school, high school, college and adult women. There was generally an excessive amount of mousse used in styling an individual's hair, which resulted in the popular, shiny look and greater volume.
Papuan women with kinky hair. Kinky hair is a uniquely human characteristic, as most mammals have straight hair, including the earliest hominids. [10] Robbins (2012) suggests that kinky hair may have initially evolved because of an adaptive need amongst humans' early hominid ancestors for protection against the intense UV radiation of the sun in Africa. [11]
Painting by Budkin Philipp Osipovich, "Girl before a mirror", 1848, shows a Russian girl with a traditional Russian braid and the headress kokoshnik. The Russian braid (Russian: Русская коса, Russkaya kosa) is a national traditional hairstyle in Russia.
Women's fashion continued to evolve from the restrictions of gender roles and traditional styles of the Victorian era. [1] Women wore looser clothing which revealed more of the arms and legs, that had begun at least a decade prior with the rising of hemlines to the ankle and the movement from the S-bend corset to the columnar silhouette of the ...