HAIRSTYLES

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HAIRSTYLES

• F R O M C U L T U R E T O F A S H I O N
  S T A T E M E N T

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Whats hairdressing?
Its the art of arranging hair
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Hairstyles along history social and cultural
significance
Its been a signifier of

• Class

• Gender

• Ethnicity

• Authority and Power

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General Overview
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Necessity to cut or confine the hair to keep it
out of the way
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Personal adornment
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Status and Age
- Primitive men fastened bones, feathers and
other objects.
Why ?
Impress and Frighten Enemy

• Noble Rank long hair.
• Noble Rank after the conquest short hair

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• Boys in ancient Greece cut their hair
• Hindu boys shaved their heads when they reached
  adolescence

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Religious Significance

• the shaved heads of Christian and Buddhist
  monks renunciation of the world

• England in the 17th century cropped hair and
  long curling locks

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Last changes in hairstyles

• Influence of fashion

Changes through the years
Class
Today women and men in all classes can choose
the style and colour of their own hair, or of a
wig
I (always, normally) like to keep my hair
short/long I like to put my hair into a pony
tail/twist/pig tails (often, sometimes) I like it
curly/straight/with-without gel I like my hair to
look spiky/soft/unkempt
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History of HairFrom 3000BC to Present Day
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Egypt

• Noblemen and women hair clipped close to the
  head
• Curly black wigs donned for ceremonial occasions
  (womens wigs were often long and braided,
  adorned with gold ornaments)
• Mens faces shaved

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Greece

• Womens hair long and pulled back into a chignon
  (bun). May dyed their hair red with henna and
  sprinkled it with gold powder, often adorning it
  with fresh flowers or jewelled tiaras.
• Mens hair short and sometimes shaved.

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Rome

• Like Greek styles
• Upper classes use of curling irons and gold
  power.  Women often dyed their hair blonde or
  wore wigs made from hair of captive civilization
  slaves. 
• Later more ornate hairstyles with hair curled
  tight and piled high on the head. 
• Hairdressing more popular
• slaves attended upper classes
• public barber shops visits

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The East

• Hair hidden in public 
• Men turban or fez
• Womens hair veil
• Men and women local public baths 

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China

• Unmarried Chinese girls long hair
• Women hair combed and tied up into a knot at the
  nape. 
• Men front of head shaved
• back of head with long and braided hair,
  tied with black silk

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Japan

• Males front of the head shaved
• back of head with hair pulled tightly into
  a short stiff ponytail.
• Women
• Medieval period long and loose
• 17th century more styled
• Swept up from the nape of the neck and adorned
  with pins and jewelled combs. 
• Geisha

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Africa

• Many tribes, so many hairstyles
• Easters Tribes desert
• Western Tribes tropical rainforest
• African Masai
• Mangbetu
• Mursi tribes

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America

• Native American Indians from
• East Coast
• Great Plains
• Central America, Mexico (Aztec)
• Central America, southern Mexico (Maya)
• Further South (Incas)

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The Western World
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15th Century (Renaissance period)

• Upper class ladies

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16th Century

• Queen Elizabeth set the trends.
• white face powder and red wigs. 

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18th Century

• Elaborated wigs, mile-high coiffures and highly
  decorated curls. 
• White powdered wigs with long ringlets. 
• Big hair

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Victorians

• Puritanical line
• Hair

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1920

• Women more free more independent. Theatre and
  Cinema
• Emergence of short, bobbed and waved styles   
• Mens hair remained short, but using brilliantine
  and highly perfumed oils.

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1980

• The Age of Excess more freedom of choice in
  styles and trends.
• A good hairdresser was an essential part of this
  womans life.  This womans hairstyle reflected
  control, a busy work life

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Modern Hairdressing Procedure
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What does this show us?

• Different people throughout the world have
  different ideas of what beauty is
• One is not necessarily better than the other
• Your hairstyle is not the only way to look great

TREAT EVERYONE EQUALLY AND APPRECIATE DIFFERENCES!
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