WTF happened in the ’80s? My goodness…
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That first photo is of Zelda Sayer Fitzgerald and she was 17 in that photo, which makes it 1917. Hair in 1900 looked like this: http://www.lphouse.com/jpg8/1900a.jpg
I’m just really glad that you got all the decades correct with the photos.
So many people don’t. Drives me nuts.
First picture is not from 1900. It’s a picture of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald from Nancy Milford’s book “Zelda”. Book credits picture from 1919.
She was born in 1900, photo was taken was she was 17.
80′s hair was just soooo rebellious.
Meh. 1940 FTW
Is that Mayim Bialik in the 90′s shot?
No.
that’s Rachel Green
No, it’s Jennifer Aniston.
no this is Patrick!!
I like the 40′s hairstyle
Yah, me too.
Very classy.
you gotta like class
That’s Lauren Bacall. She *invented* classy.
I would have loved to live in the 40′s just to meet her then
Classy for a gangster’s moll. (and a reputation for being a real a-hole in person).
See Greer Garson, Grace Kelly, Kate Hepburn, Irene Dunne, Olivia de Havilland, Audrey Hepburn, Maureen O’Hara, etc. for real class.
Hairstyles aren’t the problem; it’s the fact that the hippies turned women into emaciated pseudo-boys in the ’60s.
As a guy who grew up during the 80′s… personally I kinda like the women at that time. If done wrong it was terrible (even then) but there’s something about the women back then (sans those ridiculous shoulder pads) that still gets me hot decades latter.
Granted ill still take the 90′s as the best, that decade struck a good balance.
That 1980s hairstyle was one of the more radical styles, rather than typical. If you want glamour, you need Lay Diana circa 1981. Everyone wanted to look like her. Relatively few people actually had a mullet or a spike or punk.
Likewise, 1920s had waaay more radical styles than that. If you had a photo of that, we’d all say “OMG, in 1920 everyone had really short hair!”
And where’s the 60′s beehive? Where’s the 70′s Afro? Too radical? Then don’t do radical for 80′s.
You can’t compare a bunch of typicals with one radical.
Erm, I don’t know where you’re from, but that was quite a middle-of-the-road “going out” do where I was in the 80s. Sure, not for going to work, but when you had your party frock on.
That really is not “radical” – and it’s certainly not a spike or punk or shaved look. Yeah, its a boofy lady-mullet.
Lady Di had quite a conservative look – her hair was more like what someone in their 40s would wear at the time.
That’s Sandra Dee for the ’60′s.
Always loved that ’40s wavy style. Women were just so classy back then!
Some of these aren’t the best examples. Farrah Fawcett should have represented the 70′s and Lady Diana should have represented the 80′s.
you’re missing the Purdy…
http://scottsautographs.tripod.com/tv/joannalumley.jpg
and the Farrah Facett Majors…
http://www.haveagreathairday.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Farrah-Fawcett-Cropped.jpg
Actually, the 1920s-1930s hair was the most rebellious – almost unimaginably so to us, today. Until then all decent women wore their hair long and up in a bun. In fact, being allowed to put up one’s hair around the age of sixteen (instead of wearing little-girl braids) was an important rite of passage announcing a young woman’s entry into available adulthood – and she would take care never to be seen otherwise in public, ever again. Part of the hippie-girls’ effect on their elders was this persistent cultural base that long, unbound hair betokened childish immaturity, mental instability… or worse.
Take a look at Karumba’s link correcting the “1900s” look – believe me, it really, really mattered. Short hair on a woman for any reason but necessity (selling her hair) or illness (cut during “fevers”) would actually raise question of her morals. (Anyone in this situation carefully hid the loss until it grew out.) A famous quote from the 1920s-1930s: “We’re not sure Mother is a Christian. She bobs her hair.”
People living in that era really felt their world was spinning off its foundations.
One thing regarding the 1980′s hairstyles is that yes, there were mullets, and there was Madonna hair, and it was absolutely ridiculous, but there was also a LOT of the Princess Diana look (short and feathered) which was a total throwback to some 20 or 30 years before (and required a buttload of hairspray.)
Examples:
http://cakeheadlovesevil.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/diana15.jpg
http://pzrservices.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451ccbc69e20147e0659d92970b-400wi
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xfxmmOzXySs/TFCWUYswfjI/AAAAAAAACE4/Im0XT4ZySXg/s400/terriffic.jpg This one may actually be from the late 70s.
http://pzrservices.typepad.com/vintageadvertising/images/2008/10/21/1990_suave_ad.jpg 1990. A bit later, shows what the style eventually evolved to.
Yes, there actually was a brand of shampoo called “Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific.” There are ads for it all up in my mom’s collection of Seventeen magazines from the 70s and 80s (Seventeen used to be a much classier publication, by the way.)
And don’t forget the hairspray with the real name, “Pssssssst!”
Don’t forget the hideous mess known as a Poodle Perm. This was a mullet for ladies which featured the permed bangs and straight back hair with permed ends so the wearer looked like a french poodle. I was shunned by all the girls in grade school because I refused this 80′s hair do.
http://poorlydressed.failblog.org/2011/10/31/fashion-fail-putting-all-other-mullets-to-shame/
All I can say is that cocaine was hella popular back in the 80′s.
I can’t believe I’m the first one to mention how insanely hot the girl in the 70s picture is.
Yyyup. I’m sporting a 90s cut. But I still like it ^^ Though I gotta say, the 40s one is beautiful.
I know this is about the hair, but..up to the 00′s face, they all look okay or good. Get to the 00′s face and to me it’s like…wth? She’s freaking ugly.
What happened in the 80s? The 80s happened. That’s what. LOL!
What happened in the 80′s? cocaine abuse
That’s Jennifer Aniston in the 90′s pic, no?
What would the 2010′s representative or notable style be like?
As we aren’t all that far into the decade, no idea.