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Twenties hairstyle  • The Orchid Bob

from about 1924 to 1929
The Orchid bob This is the classic 1920s bob of the fashion plates and illustrations.
With its two flick-up side curls and shone with brilliantine An old type of gel if any hairstyle invokes the 1920s this is it.
Other named Bobs:-
Coconut bob
Egyptian bob
Moana Bob
Charleston Cut
Windswept Bob
Brushedback Bob
Eton Crop
and the succeeding Shingle and its variants.		 The Orchid bob

Photographs above:- left by Harper of Ludlow ------- right by Nunn of Brighton

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