Aibu to ask why did so many people have bowl haircuts?

[dottypotter]

Lol.

Looking back on old photos of me I feel embarrassed. I had a bowl haircut.
We're they popular and if so why did we have them?
You wouldn't dream of having it today?
Curious what was wrong with our hair and styles back then.
Cringe looking at the Pictures.

Same reason so many people today have tattoos, lip fillers, contour makeup and huge brows. Just trends - they come and go and in 20/30/40 years time we'll have a lot of current youngsters cringing at their look.

So I was fashionable then was I?

Ditto spiral perms that were crunchy with the mousse (no going near a naked flame with that hair do)

I would love to believe my hideous bowl cut was trendy in its day! (I don't though)

I had one because of Joanna Lumley. Purdey in the New Avengers

It was just quite normal.

No, loads of people had it under duress.

Hairdressers would literally only cut that style. It was a mass protests to repeal the hair tax. They forced the nation into submission by force bowl-cutting everyone

🙄🙄🙄

My mother in law inflicted it upon her family because it meant not having to go to a hairdresser - saving money because it's a cut you can do at home. My husband is scarred by the memory!

It was because they were done at home - a lot of people couldn't afford professional hairdressers.

But that doesnt make sense, for girls at least. I just had long hair , no need for professional hairdresser

I thought it was because children didnt really go to the salon and mums just did it at home? I'm sure thats what my mum told me about her childhood, families were much bigger so it was quick, easy and free.

When I was 6 or 7 my Mum got fed up with managing my hair because it was long enough to sit on and I was a nightmare whinger about it.

So one day I got taken to the hairdresser and came away with what was Essex's bowl cut but I was told it was all the rage because Lady Sara Armstrong-Jones had one.

This was mid 70s and although I have experimented a lot with my hair over the years, I'm now aiming to get it as long and wild as I can. Recently went from Mortician black to as close to white blonde as I can, because Tilda Swindon in Only Lovers left alive.

But that bloody bowl cut was traumatic and I spent a few years being mistaken for a little boy...

I think it was a very 70s thing.....

Don't know where the Essex came from - was trying to write essentially.... I believe said style was also sometimes called a page boy....

Also Swinton not Swindon - bloody autocorrect...

Sitcom Butterflies had loads! 4

In response to the girls bowl cut- For a time it was just preferred to cut girls hair. Easier to manage before the age of conditioners and decent hair brushes. When most people used a comb or very basic hairbrush. Just easier to keep it short. And as my older aunt tells me, you would have looked quite ‘poor’ if your child didn’t have a hair cut. So a bowl cut could be done at home and was practical.

Essex gets blamed for a lot of things 😆

I had that hideous bowl cut too as a child

I had that style, I recall it being called a ' page boy '

Interesting. I grew up in a pretty wealthy MC family (parents were lawyer and doctor) and it seemed the norm for girls to just have long hair. Certainly none of my friends at private school had a bowl cut that I recall

My mum /au pair did spend a lot of time brushing my hair though from recollection so I can see why it wasn't for everyone!

Me too. It was definitely a page boy

All fashions look ridiculous when viewed a decade or two later. (Viewed £ decades later they’re back in fashion 😂 slicked back hair I’m looking at you)

Bowl cuts looked cool at the time.

Lip fillers, giant eyebrows and botox don’t even look good now.

Yes the mega lip fillers and frozen forehead look is not going to stand the test of time!

Yes remember that now page boy

I had short hair as did most of girls at school. Early 80s. It was seen as practical.