HAIRSTYLES FROM CULTURE TO FASHION STATEMENT Whats hairdressing

HAIRSTYLES FROM CULTURE TO FASHION STATEMENT

What’s hairdressing? It’s the art of arranging hair

Hairstyles along history: social and cultural significance It’s been a signifier of: • Class • Gender • Ethnicity • Authority and Power

General Overview 1 Necessity to cut or confine the hair to keep it out of the way 2 Personal adornment

3 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

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

4 Religious Significance - the shaved heads of Christian and Buddhist monks: renunciation of the world; - England in the 17 th century: cropped hair and long curling locks

5 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

History of Hair From 3000 BC to Present Day http: //www. ukhairdressers. com/history%20 of%20 hair. asp

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

Greece • Women’s 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 tiara’s. • Men’s hair: short and sometimes shaved.

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

The East • Hair hidden in public: - Men: turban or fez - Women’s hair: veil - Men and women: local public baths

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

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 17 th century: more styled Swept up from the nape of the neck and adorned with pins and jewelled combs. Geisha

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

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

The Western World

15 th Century (Renaissance period) • Upper class ladies

16 th Century • Queen Elizabeth: set the trends. – white face powder and red wigs.

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

Victorians • Puritanical line • Hair

1920 • Women: more free more independent. Theatre and Cinema • Emergence of short, bobbed and waved styles • Men’s hair remained short, but using brilliantine and highly perfumed oils.

1980 • The “Age of Excess”: more freedom of choice in styles and trends. • A good hairdresser was an essential part of this woman’s life. This woman’s hairstyle reflected ‘control’, a busy work life

Modern Hairdressing Procedure

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! Images taken from http: //www. shutterstock. com/