Bobbing your hair (article with photos)

[chen bao jun]

http://www.hairarchives.com/private/1920s.htm

I think this is the most revealing paragraph. the good economic effects for beauty parlors and beauticians is why short, styled hair is pushed in our society so hard.
Economic Effects of Bobbing (from the Washington Post, 1925): The bobbed hair fashion has started a new industry, or at least set its wheels to whirling much faster--the beauty industry. Five years ago, there were 5,000 hairdressing shops in the United States; at the end of 1924 there were 21,000 established shops and several thousand transients. These figures, be it noted, do not include those barber-shops which do a rushing business with bobbing. Bobbing has led to the adoption of other aids to personal adornment, and the result is that beauty shops flourish everywhere throughout the land.

[chen bao jun]

More about the finances. $2 was a lot of money back then
http://glamourdaze.com/2014/04/1920s-hairstyles-the-bobbed-hair-phenomenon-of-1924.html

[teddygirl]

http://www.hairarchives.com/private/1920s.htm

I think this is the most revealing paragraph. the good economic effects for beauty parlors and beauticians is why short, styled hair is pushed in our society so hard.
I've rarely experienced this. And I don't think that's what this article was about whatsoever. In fact, I took it more to discuss how women used their hair as a protest and how hair became more of an accessory that can be changed and altered to what she feels like.

A teacher in Jersey City, New Jersey was actually ordered by her Board of Education to let her hair grow! The Board claimed that women waste too much time fussing with bobbed locks. Preachers warned parishioners that “a bobbed woman is a disgraced woman.” Men divorced their wives over bobbed hair. One large department store fired all employees wearing bobbed hair.

[pailin]

Chen, that was a really fun piece to read!
I never thought of that before, that early on, women would have gone to men's barbers to get their hair bobbed- maybe that only added to how scandalous it was.
And now that I know the origin of bobbie pins (evil things- I hate them), I have one more incentive to keep growing my hair :)