15+ Great Popular Women's Hairstyles 1948

The style became popularised in 1948 putting Paris on the map as the worlds fashion capital.

Popular women's hairstyles 1948. While long locks were in at the beginning the United States government encouraged actress Veronica Lake to cut her long locks to help influence women to cut their long locks that were. Apr 23 2013 - Explore Randy Hozians board 1948 Fashion followed by 114 people on Pinterest. 14 and was the predominant silhouette in womens fashion by 1949 and stayed that way well into the 1950s.

Hair was worn short and curled with the New Look and hats were essential for all but the most casual occasions. First lets just take in the beauty that is Jacqueline White who was on the cover of the first 1948 magazine shown above and is modelling here. And there have been the well-coiffed styles that we request when we make our appointments at the beauty salon each.

Wigs were sold to women who didnt want the hassle of frequent hot combing. Very short cropped hairstyles were fashionable in the early 1950s. Despite these controversies the New Look silhouette continued to be popular into the later 1940s Fig.

Shape 13 yard veiling to fit back of head and attach beribboned bicycle clip. There have been the updos that are breathtaking chic and memorable. 1-12 yards of 15 veiling ties around chignon and ends in a wide bow.

Wide-brimmed saucer hats were shown with the earliest New Look suits but smaller hats soon predominated. Women also used to tie the top of an old stocking right around their heads like a headband and roll the hair over it creating the victory roll. Unlike the looser styles of the decade many women including Greta Garbo preferred to pull their hair tight and low into a dramatic do.

Veiling and chignon in 1940s hairstyles. It was a tight sausage at the back of the hair rolled upwards rather than turned under like the pageboy. After the war many women signaled their celebratory feelings with a voluminous style dubbed victory curls a do that would become one of the eras most famous.