The Queen's Hair

[learieonthewildmoor]

The Queen stopped changing her hairstyle in the 70's, I think.
I have long wondered about it, because hair was really really bad in the 70's.
Did she just stop caring about what other people thought - "Fuck it, I'm the Queen"?

Or has it got to do with being recognisable? She on all the money, can hardly have a pixie cut on the 5 cent piece and a long bob on the 20c, can she.

Princess Anne has also been wearing the same hairstyle for decades. Is that's what's in store for Kate and Meghan?
I'd go mad if I couldn't change my hairstyle every now and again. But I don't have dozens of news outlets waiting to unleash their criticism of it.

A lot of people don’t regularly change hair styles. My father has had the same hair do for as long as I have known him. So has my DH. And my SIL and my DIL and BIL etc etc. I only change mine because I am very lazy (I get it cut short them don’t cut if for a year or two)

My grandma, who just for the record is not the queen, did the same. She has the same hairstyle now she had in the 1950s. Why? Guess because she found a hairstyle she liked and which looked good on her.
Looks similar to the queens by the way. I think a lot of old ladies like that style.

Racecardriver I think men often get frozen in time with their hairdo....
And I think that this sometimes looks silly especially if

1. they do not change their hairdo after leaving the military
2. they were/are bikers and still have a long bikers hairdo while balding

My nan had the same perm for years, until she could no longer afford to maintain it. I never noticed a huge difference, funnily enough. My gran though, she changed hers from the same perm she had had since I was born, to a short basic pixie which she then kept the same until she left us. I don't think I'd recognise the queen if she changed her hair.

My mother and my aunts and their female cousins who were same age as queen of england all had the same hairstyle once they hit adult years - so earlier than the 70s. It was very very similar to QE's hairstyle. Think changing hairstyles wasn't as bit an issue for that generation. It was quite flattering to them too.

I doubt very much if her grandchildren's wives will be the same.

1970s, isn’t that hairstyle more 1950s like. Sorry. I am young and stupid.
I think mygrandmother had a style like this since the 1950s.

It's probably a wig. Lots of famous people wear wigs to save having to get their hair done all the time.

Wasn't it the end of the 50's when shorter crops were both the norm for style at that point, and later 'the done thing' for women approaching 40. She was born in into a generation where she could trendset to an extent but not be too outside the conventional boundaries.

A wig? Why do you think so?

@Flyingfish well my DHs daily is of the mind that there is only one appropriate hair do for a male (all the same length and parted on the side). They all have it from the time they start school until they go bald then they have their head shaved clean. It’s loterally 30 odd years worth of pictures with them all wearing the same haircut. You can pick up a picture of any male family member for the past hundred years and they all have the same hair cut. It’s a bit weird now that I think about it.

I doubt a wig, her hairdresser has been with her for apparently 20yrs as he's not a blabber mouth like some royal staff.

Racedriver I think that sounds pretty cool. I would love to be at a family gathering.

Apparently she was advised to wear it this way in 1957. It’s a daily mail link btw. www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5118413/Prince-Philip-horrified-Queens-hair-claims-Crown.html Princecphilip by all accounts doesn’t approve. But he’s been putting up with it for over 50 years. Oh my days what a consort has to put up with.

It is clearly not a wig and if you look at pictures has subtly changed. Her hair is finer and thinner now.

Watch the first series of Call The Midwife. Jenny has the Queens hairstyle! It was fashionable, thanks to Hollywood mainly, and stuck for women of a certain age. It was easy to maintain in that you got a set once a week and slept in rollers and a hair net. No fannying about blow drying or whatever on a daily basis. It was also neat and out of the way. Long hair was very fashionable at the beginning of the war but became shorter as the war went on because it was harder to keep it styled, got in the way of war work and if you were in a factory was positively dangerous (hence the turbans).

My mother used to moan like hell about women who had long hair over 40, as wrong as it could get according to her. Funnily enough she doesnt have a go at me about it, possibly because she has changed her mind but more likely because I would have a go right back! She and all her friends have some form of pixie cut.

Mummyoflittledragon But then I think PrinceOhillip not approving of her hair style is pretty normal.
I d not approve of dhs and he does not approve of mine. I would really do him the favour and wear a hairstyle he likes better if he would not love long hair... and I hate everything longer than shoulder length. Too time consuming.
Actually shoulder length is a compromise. I want it shorter, he wants it longer.

I otoh think his hair is too short and cleancut. Would love him to look a bit more wild.

I love the queen.id love her to give me a big hug.shes so cute and dinty.

Flyingfish
I suppose so. Hadn’t really thought about it. Dh likes my hair longer. I grow it a bit, get fed up, have it shorter for a while then get fed up again and grow it again.

The Queen has to wear her hair a certain way in order to wear all the different tiaras.

As said by a pp, my Mother's was practically the same style, since she turned 40. She is a year younger than the Queen.

Watching Classic Coronation Street, Rita Fairclough, Emily Bishop and the other over 40's all had a perm.

In the article it used the term, "smart and sensible', that's what was expected. You'd go the hairdresser once a week for a shampoo and set and a perm every so often.

As for" going mad if you couldn't change it", are you post Menopausal? That can cut down on your options.

I wish I had the money to still be able to play around with colour, but my grey is coming in too fast and my hair isn't as strong as it was.

You sometimes have no option but to go shorter, over 70, if you want your hair to hold a style.

Ok I had way too much fun with this .... I am traveling for work and stuck in a dim hotel room and can’t sleep ... so I thought , what would her royal maj look like ....

I thought most people pretty much stuck with a hairstyle they like that suited them? I've basically had long blonde hair all my life apart from some memorable fuck ups attempts at something different that didnt last.

Lady I wouldn't recognise her!

I did some medium length too but I can’t upload them for some reason - sorry - they are pretty good - cracking myself up here

Long hair for young women and girls seems THE style these days. I sometimes think that really not every face suits that style but it'sfashion.