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There is, however, no hard and fast rule to be followed, for I have often been fooled myself and delightfully surprised. To start with, one must have the right sort of hair and rather small features also help to bring about satisfactory results.

I do not wish to take the blame, because in a great number of case I find the responsibility a serious one and the results a “chamber of horrors.”ĭon’t think I am knocking those who may have followed in my footsteps I am indeed honored, and in four cases at least that I know of it has been the making of a very individual and even beautiful person out of one who would not have attracted attention before. It is easier to be the first person to do a thing than the first to introduce it, and I believe I am largely blamed for the homes wrecked and engagements broken because of clipped tresses. I do not claim to be the first person to wear bobbed hair in fact, I believe there are a number of people who, like myself, picture Joan of Arc with shorn locks! There have been several periods in history when women wore short hair. There has been so much controversy over the bobbed-hair craze that I feel I ought to put some of the world right, as to my side of it at least.

In these magazine excerpts, Castle, singer Mary Garden, and film star Mary Pickford (known as “America’s Sweetheart”), described their decisions to adopt, or not adopt, the new style. Dancer Irene Castle (Treman) inadvertently helped set the fashion when she cut her hair for convenience before entering the hospital for an appendectomy. Instead, magazines such as Ladies Home Journal and Pictorial Review presented readers with the debate: “To Bob or Not to Bob?” The short, sculpted hair of the “bob” marked a startling visual departure from the upswept and carefully dressed hair of the early twentieth-century Gibson Girl. While earlier generations had debated suffrage, political discussions of feminism were seldom the stuff of popular media in the 1920s. The “new woman” of the 1910s and 1920s rejected the pieties (and often the politics) of the older generation, smoked and drank in public, celebrated the sexual revolution, and embraced consumer culture. The New Woman of the 1920s: Debating Bobbed-Hair

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