A "bob cut" is a short haircut for women (and occasionally men) in which the hair is typically cut straight around the head at about jaw-level, often with a fringe (or "bangs") at the front.

History[link]

Louise Brooks

Polaire in 1910

Historically, women in the west have usually worn their hair long. Although young girls, actresses and a few "advanced" or fashionable women had worn short hair even before World War 1,^[1][2]—for example in 1910 the French actress Polaire, (right) is described as having "a shock of short, dark hair",^[3] a cut she adopted in the early 1890s^[4]—the style was not considered generally respectable^[5] until given impetus by the inconvenience of long hair to girls engaged in war work.^[6][7] English society beauty Lady Diana Cooper, who had had bobbed hair as a child,^[8] kept the style through her teenage years^[9] and continued in 1914 as an adult.^[10] Renowned dancer and fashion trendsetter Irene Castle introduced her "Castle bob" to a receptive American audience in 1915. Popularized by film stars Colleen Moore and Louise Brooks in the early 1920s, it was then seen as a somewhat shocking statement of independence in young women, as older people were used to seeing girls wearing long dresses and heavy Edwardian-style hair. Hairdressers, whose training was mainly in arranging and curling long hair, were slow to realise that short styles for women had arrived to stay, and so barbers in many cities found lines of women outside their shops, waiting to be shorn of hair that had taken many years to grow.^[11][12]

Although as early as 1922 the fashion correspondent of The Times was suggesting that bobbed hair was passé,^[13] by the mid 1920s the style (in various versions, often worn with a side-parting, curled or waved, and with the hair at the nape of the neck "shingled" short), was the dominant female hairstyle in the Western world. The style was spreading even beyond the West, as women who rejected traditional roles adopted the bob cut as a sign of modernity.^[14] Close-fitting cloche hats had also become very popular, and couldn't be worn with long hair. Well-known bob-wearers were actresses Clara Bow and Joan Crawford, as well as Dutch film star Truus van Aalten.

As the 1930s approached, women started to grow their hair longer, and the sharp lines of the bob were abandoned.^[15]

1960s and beyond[link]

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In the 1960s, Vidal Sassoon made it popular again, using the shape of the early bob and making it more stylish in a simpler cut. Its resurgence coincided with the arrival of the "mop top" Beatle cut for men. Those associated with the bob at that time included the fashion designers Mary Quant and Jean Muir, actresses Nancy Kwan, Carolyn Jones, Barbara Feldon and Amanda Barrie, and singers as diverse as Keely Smith, Cilla Black, Billie Davis, Juliette Gréco, Mireille Mathieu and Beverly Bivens of the American group We Five.

Many styles and combinations of the "bob" have evolved since. In the late 1980s, Siouxsie Sioux, lead singer of Siouxsie and the Banshees and Corinne Drewery singer of Swing Out Sister, had a bob cut for a short time. Singer Linda Ronstadt sported a very "Louise Brooks" inspired bob on the cover of two Grammy award winning albums in the late 1980's. 1987's Trio album with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris and her 1989 release Cry Like A Rainstorm, Howl Like The Wind. She also wears the cut in the video for her duet with James Ingram, Somewhere Out There. Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of American Vogue since 1988, apparently had hers trimmed every day (Times 2, 10 July 2006). In the early 1990s Cyndi Lauper had a bob haircut with very unusual colors; soon afterwards, the cut became identified with Uma Thurman in the film Pulp Fiction in 1994. In the mid to late 1990s, T-Boz of TLC also had a bob haircut with very unusual colors that was asymmetrical with bangs.

2000s revival[link]

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In 2006 the bob was adopted by the singer Madonna and, as a move away from boho-chic, by actress Sienna Miller.

In November 2005, Canadian ice dancer Kristina Lenko was asked to join ITV1's new series, Dancing on Ice. Needing something shorter than her then waist length cut, she went to her stylist in Toronto and told him "Do whatever you like." The result was an asymmetric Bob cut, which has since been heavily copied. Popularity of the cut in the UK and Ireland can be traced to the influence of fashion 'icon' and ex Spice Girl Victoria Beckham having had her hair bobbed in the same style,^[16] with girls asking hairdressers for a "Pob"—Ms Beckham's nickname Posh Spice conflated with "bob".

In 2007 R&B singer Rihanna had a bob haircut in the video for "Umbrella". She has stated that she got her inspiration from Charlize Theron in Æon Flux. Keira Knightley had a bob in her short TV ad for Coco Mademoiselle. Actress Christina Ricci also had a bob for live-action movie version for 60s anime series Speed Racer and later onwards.

At her third show in Brisbane, Australia, Britney Spears wore the bob throughout her concert.

Types[link]

• Chinese bob: Cut at the neckline, bobbed up around the edge.
• "A-line bob": A typical bob cut, with slightly longer hair in front, cut in an asymmetrical style.
  • Made popular throughout the 20th century by various people, including iconic actresses Louise Brooks, Clara Bow, and Theresa Russell (in her role as Sophie in the 1984 film, The Razor's Edge).
• Worn, as well, by contemporary fashionistas such as Victoria Beckham known as the A-line bob as it is layered in at the back, it is originally around the shape of the face but has many variations, including the dramatic "buzzcut bob" where it is shoulder-length at the front and crew-cut at the back.
• Pageboy: is slightly different from the bob, but is also acknowledged as a type of bob. Hair is usually worn straight and could go as long as shoulder-length.^[17] The fringe is cut at or above the height of the eyebrows. It has been the signature hairstyle of "Vogue" editor-in-chief Anna Wintour for decades.
• Eton crop, an ultra-short, masculine bob briefly popular in the mid-1920s and based on a schoolboy style; usually worn with slicked-down hair. Dance artist Josephine Baker was its most famous exponent.

See also[link]

• Bobby pin
• "Bernice Bobs Her Hair", a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald on the subject.

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Bob haircut

• "History: 25 Hairstyles of the Last 100 Years" - 25: Bob/Finger Wave, 1920s. Retrieved 2011, August 23 at Listverse.com.

Look up Bob, bob, or BOB in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Bob is a common nickname for the given name Robert.

Bob may also refer to:

Science and technology[link]

• Bob (physics), the weight at the end of a pendulum
• Hurricane Bob, first major hurricane of the 1991 Atlantic hurricane season
• Alice and Bob, placeholder characters in cryptography and physics problems
• Breakout box, a piece of electronics equipment used to split components or individual leads in a connector

Music[link]

• B.o.B, Bobby Ray Simmons, Jr., American rapper, guitarist and singer-songwriter
• BOB (band), a UK indie pop band
• "Bob" (song), a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic from the album Poodle Hat
• "B.O.B." (song), a song by OutKast
• "Bob", a song by the Drive-By Truckers from the album Brighter Than Creation's Dark
• "Bob", a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers from the album One Hot Minute
• "Bob", a song by NOFX from the album White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean
• "Bob", a song by Primus from the album Pork Soda

Companies and organizations[link]

• Building Opportunities with Business, a community economic development non-profit based in Vancouver, Canada
• Bank of Baroda, in India
• Bank of Botswana, the central bank of Botswana
• Boys of Bangladesh, a network of gay men in Bangladesh

Video games and computers[link]

• B.O.B. (video game), a side-scrolling shooter by Electronic Arts
• Bob (Tekken), a character in the video game series Tekken
• Bob, the Jagex cat in RuneScape
• Evil Bob, a random event in RuneScape
• Bob, a character in Bubble Bobble
• Bob, a character in the video game Animal Crossing
• Microsoft Bob, a software product
• B.O.B. (Big-O-Blaster), a machine in the video game Banjo-Tooie
• Blitter object, a graphics construct
• Born on Board, the humans in the Marathon Trilogy computer games
• Bob Page, a character from the video game Deus Ex

Comics[link]

• Bob the Tomato, one of the principal characters in the VeggieTales video series
• Bob (First Comics), a "watchlizard" from the First Comics series GrimJack
• Bob, a character in Weebl and Bob
• Bob, an eponymous main character of the sprite comic Bob and George
• Bob, Agent of HYDRA, a Marvel Comics character
• Bob (comics), a name for several comics

Television[link]

• Killer BOB, a villain from the television series Twin Peaks
• Bob (Blackadder character), two characters in the television comedy Blackadder
• Bob (The Dresden Files), a character featured in the novels and TV show The Dresden Files
• Bob, one of the main characters in ReBoot
• Bob the Builder
• Bob the Killer Goldfish, a character in the Earthworm Jim universe
• Smilin' Bob, a character in commercials for Enzyte
• Bob, a character in The Suite Life of Zack & Cody
• Sideshow Bob, a character in the television show The Simpsons
• Band of Brothers (TV miniseries)
• Bob (TV series), a television comedy starring Bob Newhart

Film[link]

• Silent Bob, a character in several Kevin Smith films, including Dogma and Chasing Amy
• B.O.B. (Benzoate Ostylezene Bicarbonate), gelatinous creature in the film Monsters vs Aliens
• Bob, title character in the movie What About Bob?
• Planet Bob, also known as New Earth, in the film Titan A.E.

Books[link]

• Almighty Bob, a fictional deity in Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams
• Bob, one of the human characters on Sesame Street

People[link]

• Brendan O'Brien, Irish journalist
• J. R. "Bob" Dobbs, figurehead of the satirical Church of the SubGenius
• Bob Olin, American world champion light heavyweight boxer
• Ioan Bob, Bishop of Făgăraş of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church from 1783 to 1830

Military[link]

• The Battle of Britain
• Berlin Operating Base, the CIA station in Berlin during the Cold War

Other uses[link]

• Bob cut, a hairstyle
• Bob, a slang term in Great Britain for the shilling
• Bob campaign, a campaign promoting designated driving
• Rob (disambiguation)
• BOB (psychedelic), a psychedelic drug
• Baby on Board
• Bank One Ballpark, now Chase Field
• Basketball Owl Band, pep band unit of the Rice University Marching Owl Band
• Battle of bands, a competition between multiple bands
• Bayerische Oberlandbahn, a private German railway
• Beast of burden (disambiguation)
• Beijing Olympic Broadcasting
• Bend Over Boyfriend, slang term for a sexual practice
• Berner Oberland Bahn, a mountain railway in Switzerland
• Best of Biotech, an international life science business plan competition organized by Austria Wirtschaftsservice
• Best of Breed, an award in dog shows and other settings
• Big Orange Ball, military slang for the Sun
• Body Opponent Bag, a punching bag shaped like a human head and torso
• BOB, ISO 4217 currency code for the Bolivian boliviano currency
• BOB, IATA code for Bora Bora Airport
• Bug-out bag, an emergency kit
• Buy on board

See also[link]

• Robert (disambiguation)
• Bobby (disambiguation)

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Look up cut in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Cut may refer to:

• The act of cutting, the separation of an object into two through acutely directed force

Mathematics[link]

• Cut (graph theory)
• Branch cut, a concept in complex analysis
• Dedekind cut, a partition of rational numbers
• Cut-elimination theorem

Computing[link]

• Cut (logic programming)
• cut (Unix), a command line utility
• Cut, copy, and paste, a set of editing procedures

[edit] Film and television

• Cut (transition), a transition from one sequence to another
• Cut (censorship), removal of a scene to meet censors' requirements
• Cut (film), a horror comedy
• The Cut (film), 2007 South Korean horror film
• Cut (advertisement), a 2009 British advertising campaign on domestic violence

Music[link]

• Cut (music), an African American music technique
• Cut (C-Tec album)
• Cut (Crack the Sky album)
• Cut (Golden Earring album)
• Cut (Hunters and Collectors album)
• Cut (The Slits album)
• "Cut" (Plumb song)
• Cut drum
• Cut, an album by Flare Acoustic Arts League
• "Cut", a song by The Cure on the album Wish
• "Cut", A slang term for "track" or "song" derived from early song recording when music was recorded on master tapes which had to be literally cut up in order to make the final music release.

Games and sport[link]

• Cut (cards), a method of mixing a deck of cards
• Cut (golf), a means of reducing the number of competitors in a golf tournament or a type of stroke
• Carleton Ultimate Team

Geography[link]

• Cut, Alba, Romania
• Cut River
• Cut, a village in Dumbrava Roşie, Neamţ County, Romania

Schools[link]

• Central University of Technology, South Africa
• Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
• Chinhoyi University of Technology, Zimbabwe
• Curtin University of Technology, Australia
• Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus

Trade unions[link]

• Central Única dos Trabalhadores, in Brazil
• Confederación Unitaria de Trabajadores (Costa Rica)
• Confederación Unitaria de Trabajadores del Perú

Other uses[link]

• Cut (archaeology), a hole dug in the past
• Cut (clothing), the style or shape of a garment
• Cut (earthmoving), an excavation to make way for a transport route
• Cut (etiquette), a snub or slight such as failure to greet an acquaintance
• Cut (gems)
• Cut (novel), by Patricia McCormick
• Cut of meat
• Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications, a UK political pressure group
• Church Universal and Triumphant, a religious movement
• Cincinnati Union Terminal
• Compact Utility Tractor
• Coordinated Universal Time, a time standard
• Cryptic unstable transcript, a type of RNA molecule
• A type of wound
• CUT is the IATA code for Cutral Có Airport, Argentina

See also[link]

• Cuts, a TV series
• Cutting (disambiguation)
• Cutter (disambiguation)
• Cutoff (disambiguation)
• Cut-out (disambiguation)
• Cutaway (disambiguation)

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