The modern day bob

The bob sometimes gets a bad rap, being called the "soccer mom" look or that hideous hair cut we keep seeing on the cover of recent tabloids, but we think it is actually a timeless and classic hairstyle. The hair cut became popular in 1914 when ballroom dancer and silent film actor Irene Castle cut her hair into a bob before entering the hospital for an appendectomy. She did it for convenience, but with so many woman in the workforce while the men were at war it became desirable to simplify their hairstyles. It has come in and out of fashion almost every other decade since. For a lot of modern day hair stylists Vidal Sassoon is what we think of when we hear "bob". We might picture one of the precision haircuts he did in the 60's pictured above on Nancy Kwan in the black and white photo. Over the weekend we gave that hair style a modern interpretation in Melissa's haircut above, which captures the geometric look Vidal Sassoon made famous, but with a little more movement and texture.