Jazz Age · 1925
Josephine Baker and the lacquered Eton crop
In 1925 a nineteen-year-old from St. Louis arrived in Paris and turned a haircut into a lacquered emblem of the Jazz Age.
Women walked into barbershops and asked for the bob. The shingle and the Eton crop followed. Marcel waves, set with a heated iron, gave short hair a rippled finish. Josephine Baker lacquered hers flat.
Highlights
- The bob and shingle
- Marcel waving
- Josephine Baker's crop
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