Rachel Gibson
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard Sep 2025
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uh when the bob comes in in the nineteen well nineteen tens, nineteen twenties, that's very much linked to what's happening with women's liberation and women being more free to do more things with their life than sit at home and and have their hair done.
And we see it again in the nineteen sixties when Vidal Sassoon cuts bobs in London very famously and that becomes a big trend.
And he talked about wanting to do hairstyles that were washed
and wear so you could just have a shower at home and leave.
You didn't have to go to the salon once a week to have your hair permed and set and sit there for a couple of hours.
You know, it really marks a shift in
specifically women's lifestyles, I suppose, the change from a nineteen fifties housewife to a nineteen sixties woman who might be managing a job and a household, and this idea of a haircut that didn't require lots of effort and was able to just be washed and left and it look perfect, that really marks a a big change in people's lifestyles.
So I think the time that people have to spend on their hair really does dictate trend
Yeah, I think we have a lot of interesting hairstyles.
Um for the Teddy boys and that kind of late forties, early fifties rock and roll moment.
But certainly the Beatles made a big change and I think it's interesting how scandalous their hairstyles were seen when
Because to us who generally are quite used to seeing men with longer hair or different styles of hair, you might think they might look slightly silly hairstyles perhaps, but you certainly don't think they're scandalous.
But people were really outraged by this longer hair.
So it definitely marked a really big moment.
And I think that era of 1950s into the sixties when teenagers are really becoming a big marketing group of their own and trends are being directed
be targeted at teenagers, all of that changes and music plays such a huge part in that.
And I think we then go off into the seventies, which is obviously a really fascinating time for her history because we have the punk movement and that's when colour
you know, hair colouring really becomes a big trend and becomes much more widespread, much more acceptable.
Obviously the punk movement was very extreme, but it did usher in these products that allowed you to have bright colored hair for the first time.
So I think punk is a great example of her demonstrating status.
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