Although young girls, actresses and a few 'advanced' or fashionable women had worn short hair even before World War I -for example in 1910 the French actress Polaire is described as having 'a shock of short, dark hair', a cut she adopted in the early 1890s -the style was not considered generally respectable until given impetus by the inconvenience of long hair to girls engaged in war work. Historically, women in the West have usually worn their hair long.
History Alice Liddell with bob and fringe, aged 7, photographed by Charles Dodgson ( Lewis Carroll) in 1860 Polaire in 1910 The standard bob cut exposes the back of the neck and keeps all of the hair well above the shoulders. A young woman with bob haircut from behindĪ bob cut, also known as a bob, is a short to medium length haircut, in which the hair is typically cut straight around the head at approximately jaw level, and no longer than shoulder-length, often with a fringe at the front.
