Page head (hairstyle)

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The page head , also known as the Eton cut , is a short hairstyle that prevailed in the course of the emancipation of women, especially from the 1920s.

history

While the pageboy hairstyle was already known in Paris in 1913, the haircut did not gain acceptance in Germany until the beginning of the Weimar Republic around 1920. The hairstyle, based on the men's cut, stood as a visible sign against the reactionary image of young girls from the imperial era , which was conveyed stereotypically, for example, through the Backfisch novels.

The page head is a variant of the bob in which the hair on the back of the head is also worn short. As the fashion of young women, the page head stood for the type of new woman who moved self-confidently, intellectually and independently in public, was mentally independent, smoked cigarettes, sped through the big city in an automobile or even on a motorcycle and pursued her own job.

In Germany, the Danish actress Asta Nielsen in particular made the modern, boyish short hairstyle popular after it shone in the silent film adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet in 1921 .

In Berlin the journalist and writer Ruth Landshoff claimed the first page head when she danced in a tuxedo to jazz music on stage with the almost stark naked Josephine Baker . Count Kessler commented on Landshoff's appearance: "[...] really like a beautiful boy".

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Thomas Blubacher: Bubikopf . In: ders .: How it used to be. Nice and interesting facts from grandmother's time (= Insel-Taschenbuch . Vol. 4272). Insel, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-458-35972-2 ; As an online resource (epub): ISBN 978-3-458-73359-1 (without page numbers; limited preview in the Google book search).
  2. ↑ Twenties Hairstyles - Bobby Hair and Eton Style , accessed January 25, 2019.