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Women’s and Girls’ Hair A cultural history
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Timeline

  • Plaits, pins and portrait heads
  • Veils, braids and combs
  • Courts, coifs and caps
  • Powder, pomade and height
  • Revolution and Regency
  • Loops, nets and fringes
  • Edwardian volume to wartime practicality
  • The bob decade
  • Waves, glamour and war
  • The post-war set
  • Height, geometry and pride
  • Shags, feathers and afros
  • Scale and finish
  • Minimal and layered
  • Straightened and extended
  • The platform era
  • Pandemic and microtrends

Styles

  • Braids and plaits
  • Locs
  • The Afro
  • The beehive
  • The bob
  • The bun and chignon
  • The ponytail
  • Victory rolls
  • Wigs and hairpieces

Techniques

  • Finger waving
  • Marcel waving
  • Permanent waving
  • Pressing and straightening
  • Roller setting

Objects

  • Curling tongs and the Marcel iron
  • The comb
  • The hair dryer
  • The hairpin
  • The home permanent kit

People

  • Annie Turnbo Malone
  • Antoine de Paris
  • Christina M. Jenkins
  • J. D. ’Okhai Ojeikere
  • Karl Nessler
  • Kwame Brathwaite
  • Madam C. J. Walker
  • Marcel Grateau
  • Marjorie Stewart Joyner
  • Rose Meta Morgan
  • Vidal Sassoon

Themes

  • Black hair and identity
  • Grey hair, hair loss and wigs
  • Hair and school

Source guides

  • Reading hair in family photographs

By age

  • Infancy and early childhood
  • School-age girls
  • Teenagers and adolescents
  • Young adults
  • Midlife
  • Older age

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Women’s and Girls’ Hair

This is an independent history website. It is not sponsored by, endorsed by or affiliated with any hair-care brand, salon group, product manufacturer, museum or professional body. Brand and product names appear only as historical evidence.

Written in good faith and to the best of our knowledge at the time of writing; research current to 12 November 2026. Nothing here is medical or hairdressing advice. Suggestions and corrections are welcome: get in touch.

  • Editorial policy
  • Corrections
  • Safety and health
  • Accessibility
  • Rights and takedown
  • Privacy
  • Hair words (glossary)
  • Site map
  • New research (Atom feed)